Group Coordinator and Bulletin Editor
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Pacific Community, Fisheries Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems Division, Information Section, SPC, BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.Note from the editor
Welcome to the eighth issue of the Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin. This issue contains several contributions in various areas, which cover sea-cucumber biology and fishery, and are arranged as in previous issues in three major sections: new information, correspondence and publications.
Several articles from around the region have been extracted from working papers presented at the recent joint South Pacific Commission - Forum Fisheries Agency Workshop on the Management of South Pacific Inshore Fisheries, held in Noumea in June/July 1995.
The management of these fisheries raises problems in many Pacific countries and territories, as seen in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Indonesia, as well as Galapagos (see Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin #7), where the situation is still very disquieting. These issues will certainly be discussed at a symposium on echinoderm fisheries and mariculture planned for the next International Echinoderm Conference (San Francisco, August 1996).
Following the article on the spawning of Cucumaria frondosa, other aspects of its reproductive biology are presented here.
The rubrique ’Spawning observations’ again contains helpful information, and the first reply to the request for 'fission and regeneration observations' (see Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin #7) provides new data for Holothuria atra.
Chantal Conand
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