Keep the Pledge

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Keep the Pledge 〰️

We are asking people across Fiji to forego kawakawa and donu over the next four months, as these highly valuable fish species gather to breed.

Many 4FJ champions have been spreading this message every June, now for many years, and it is important to Keep the Pledge as we continue to work together to help improve the health of our fishing grounds so we can have bigger, better catches.

There are tens of thousands of people who have made pledge before and will keep the pledge.

Since 2018, the Government of Fiji has banned the fishing, collecting, transporting, and selling kawakawa and donu from 1st of June to the 30th of September. June 1 marks the start of the legal ban.

In the previous two years, the ban was lifted in the later months, the Government said, because of COVID-19 economic impacts. With COVID-19 travel restrictions lifted and tourism restarted, it is not expected that the ban will be lifted this year.