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Adrian Wickham is worried. He sits quietly in the back of a cavernous conference hall, fiddling with his fedora as he listens to Pacific island nation leaders, renowned marine scientists and international fishery managers talk tuna.

Wickham knows tuna. That’s been his business for decades as the manager of SolTuna, the Solomon Islands’ only cannery. And it’s been his country’s lifeblood for generations, providing food, jobs and a reliable revenue stream for government services.

He didn’t need to fly 200 miles from Noro, where SolTuna is based, to a United Nations g

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