By Antoine Teitelbaum and Sompert Gereva

As part of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) project “Development of aquaculture based livelihoods in the Pacific Islands region and tropical Australia” (FIS2006/138), Vanuatu’s Fisheries Department, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), will launch a small-scale anemonefish farming trial in Vanuatu. The aim of this project is to determine whether anemonefish farming could be a viable activity in rural areas of Vanuatu. It is hoped that with technological advances becoming more accessible, such activities could extend to other part of the Pacific Islands region where the aquarium trade is active.