This report on gender issues in Solomon Islands, Palau and Vanuatu in the tuna industry aimed to assist the Fiji Islands government in the preparation of a national tuna development and management plan and proposed strategies to address negative gender impacts. It was to ensure that the benefits of any new industrial initiatives are distributed as evenly as possible to all Fiji Islands citizens: men and women of different ages and cultures, living in different geographic areas. Although women make up only three per cent of the people employed in the harvesting sector of the commercial tuna industry, they make up at least 64 per cent of those employed in the processing sector. As a group, women often receive the least number of benefits and bear the brunt of the most adverse effects.