Fisheries Newsletter No 134 (January-April 2011)

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Number 134 (January-April 2011)

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Produced by the Pacific Community, Division of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems, Information Section, BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia
Produced with financial assistance from France, Australia and New Zealand

Editorial

According to the smile of this young fisherman from Vanuatu, there must be some benefits to the establishment of marine protected areas monitored by coastal communities. Nicolas Pascal summarised a cost-benefit analysis he made of five community-based marine protected areas in Vanuatu. Unfortunately, his conclusion is not a complete “thumbs up”, as he notes that “not all investments in MPAs have been recuperated after the first five years, and for some, there is no return on investment even after 25 years of projections.”

Collecting data from artisanal fisheries and developing tools to analyse and use these data for management is a challenge for many, if not all, Pacific Island countries and territories. Guillemot and Ducrocq describe in their article the work done in New Caledonia; how the three provinces have worked at standardising the type of data they collect from fishermen and how relevant management indicators have been developed to monitor small-scale commercial fisheries.

Among the 18 other articles that make up this issue, you will read about some of SPC’s work related to climate change; efforts made in Solomon Islands to improve food security, using fish aggregating devices or aquaculture; training on tuna biological sampling in Pohnpei, copepod culture in Australia, pearl jewellery in Majuro; and more.

I hope you find this menu to your taste.

Aymeric Desurmont

Fisheries Information Officer

  

In this issue

SPC ACTIVITIES

  • Climate change study on Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands (pdf: 196 KB)

  • Managing the Marshall Islands’ sea cucumber fishery (pdf: 290 KB)

  • FAD assistance to the Solomon Islands (pdf: 227 KB)

  • 5th Regional Tuna Data Workshop, Noumea, New Caledonia(pdf: 157 KB)

  • Biological sampling workshop in Pohnpei (pdf: 282 KB)

  • Seventh Heads of Fisheries meeting (pdf: 266 KB)

  • New expertise comes to SPC’s Nearshore Fisheries Development Section (pdf: 124 KB)

  • Deep Blue: Pacific Island fisheries observers in action (pdf: 106 KB)

  • New publications from SPC's FAME Division (pdf: 81 KB)

NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND THE REGION

  • Aquaculture and food security in Solomon Islands (pdf: 163 KB)

  • Pearl jewellery training in the Marshall Islands (pdf: 150 KB)

  • New Caledonia lobster aquaculture trials: The season is here! (pdf: 170 KB)

  • Aquaculture health training trip to Western Australia (pdf: 163 KB)

  • Aquaculture training cooperation between Australia and New Caledonia (pdf: 103 KB)

  • CNMI expresses interest in offshore aquaculture (pdf: 100 KB)

  • Challenges to domestic tuna industry development in the Pacific (pdf: 105 KB)

  • Bycatch information consolidated in WCPFC database (pdf: 111 KB)

FEATURE ARTICLES

  • Proper fish handling for quality and safety
    by S. Beverly (pdf: 333 KB)

  • Developing a database and relevant management indicators for monitoring commercial fisheries
    by N. Guillemot and M. Ducrocq (pdf: 531 KB)

  • Cost-benefit analysis of community-based marine protected areas: Five case studies in Vanuatu
    by N. Pascal (pdf: 438 KB)

A proud young fisherman and his catch, Vanuatu. Image: Nicolas Pascal
A proud young fisherman and his catch, Vanuatu. Image: Nicolas Pascal