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Number
118 (July-September 2006)
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Produced by the Information Section, Marine
Resources Division, SPC, B.P. D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.
Fax: (687) 263818; E-mail: cfpinfo@spc.int
with financial assistance from France, Australia and New Zealand
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Editorial
Phase 1 of the new Regional Tuna Tagging Project began in August
2006. The chartered pole-and-line vessel F/V Soltai 6 spent two
months in the Bismark Sea, Papua New Guinea, tagging nearly
12,000 tuna, mainly skipjack (~ 60% of the overall catch). A
detailed report of the first results is presented in page 36. An
interesting feature article by Ben Ponia is published on page
58. Ben describes the new aquaculture developments taking place
in the northern Pacific, and identifies a number of
institutional partners for future collaboration with SPC.
Jean-Paul Gaudechoux
Fisheries Information Adviser
(jeanpaulg@spc.int)
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In
This Issue
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| SPC
ACTIVITIES |
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Reef Fisheries
Observatory |
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• Staff changes
• Survey work in the Solomon
Islands
• Survey work in Papua New Guinea
• Improvements to the PROCFish/C web portal (429
K)
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Fisheries
Management Section |
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• Tuvalu's Coastal Fisheries
Management Programme
• Community-based Fisheries
Management Programme in Nauru (160
K)
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Aquaculture
Section |
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• Cook Islands National Pearl
Economics Workshop and Industry Seminar
• FAO sub-committee on aquaculture
• Indigenous Aquaculture Session, Australasian
Aquaculture Conference
• Country visit to French Polynesia and update on
aquaculture activities
• Eradication of Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis
mossambicus), restocking of Nile tilapia (O.
niloticus), and improved aquaculture pond management
in Nauru
• Progress report on experimental stocking and community
management of tilapia in Lake Satoalepai, Samoa
• Regional women's training workshop in aquaculture at
CETC (878 K)
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Nearshore
Fisheries development and Training Section |
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• Tuna loining workshop and
training needs assessment in New Caledonia
• Onboard training of Soltai pole-and-line crew
for the PNG tuna tagging project
• Fifteen priority issues for the tuna industry in
Melanesia
• In brief (297 K)
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Oceanic
Fisheries Programme |
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• Regional Tuna Tagging Project -
Phase I: Papua New Guinea (310 K)
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| NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND THE REGION |
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• Coral farm project helps
village in American Samoa start business, learn about
reef management
• New coral reef
management guide provides strategies to conserve world's
coral reefs (101 K) |
| FEATURE
ARTICLES |
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Special traits and promises of the
giant clam (Tridacna maxima) in French Polynesia,
by Antoine Gilbert, George Remoissenet, Laurent Yan
et Serge Andrefouët (388 K) |
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Baited underwater video for assessing
reef fish populations in marine reserves, by Tim
Langlois, Pascale Chabanet, Dominique Pelletier and Euan
Harvey (195 K) |
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Aquaculture updates in the northern
Pacific: Hawaii, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau,
and Saipan, by Ben Ponia (420
K) |
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| Complete issue in
PDF format:
Fisheries Newsletter #118
(2.7 Mo)
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