Yellowfin & Bluefin Tuna Overprint (Tuna Fishery 2016)

Post PNG as the governing administration of postage stamps in Papua New Guinea, through its Philatelic Department, has released a set of over-printed postage stamps that were released in 2016 (Tuna Fishery Papua New Guinea).

The overprints of values are from Yellowfin Tuna (K1.45) overprinted with K5.00 and K6.90 value, while Bluefin Tuna (K2.00) is overprinted with K1.60 value.

Papua New Guinea has an extensive and valuable fisheries sector including deepwater tuna fisheries. Tuna is the largest of fisheries in Papua New Guinea - the fishery is primarily based on the skipjack and yellowfin fish species with smaller quantities of bigeye and albacore.

Under a National Tuna Fishery Management Plan, which established the framework for longline, purse-seine, pole and line fisheries. Papua New Guinea has also embarked on onshore investments in the tuna fishery resulted in foreign and domestic access by purse-seine vessels increasingly linked to onshore investment commitment, in the form of tuna processing.

The Tuna species are found throughout the Papua New Guinea fisheries zone, especially to the north and east. As tuna is a migratory species moving from area to area depending on climatic conditions, the quantity found in the Papua New Guinea zone may vary significantly from year to year.

With the ever-growing concern that yellowfin and bigeye tuna may be nearing an overfished state, consideration for potential development for other opportunities is now focused on aquaculture in particular other viable fisheries and aquaculture activities including; seaweed, pearls, sponges and coral.

Source: http://www.fisheries.gov.pg/FisheriesIndustry/TunaFishery

 Technical Details

STAMP SIZE:                                      40mm x 35mm

SOUVENIR SHEET SIZE                      -

SHEETLET SIZE                                  -

DENOMINATION                                 K1.60, K5.00 & K6.90

SHEET CONTENTS:                             25

FORMAT:                                           Horizontal

PERFORATION:                                  2mm

COLOURS:                                         4 colour process

PAPER:                                              102 gsm

GUM:                                                Unwatered mark, PVA Gummed

PRINTING TECHNIQUE:                       Offset, Lithography

PRINTER:                                           Star Printers

ISSUE DATE:                                      6th March 2020

WITHDRAWAL DATE:                           8th March 2021