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Number 125 (April-June 2008)
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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
Welcome to
this issue of the Fisheries Newsletter. In this issue Bob
Gillett et al., on page 32, raise the issue of the use of
livelihood diversification for resource management in the
Pacific Islands. It is now understood that inshore fisheries are
overexploited in many areas of the Pacific and that securing
alternative sources of income or food to relieve pressure on
inshore marine resources in now critical.
Jean-Paul Gaudechoux
Fisheries Information Adviser
(jeanpaulg@spc.int)
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In
This Issue
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ACTIVITIES |
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Reef Fisheries
Observatory |
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• Two staff recruited
to work on country reports
• Trochus and sea cucumber surveys around Epi Island,
Vanuatu
• Four sites in Tonga revisited for socioeconomic
surveys
• Trochus surveys in Kosrae and Pohnpei, Federated
States of Micronesia
• First sub-regional underwater visual census (UVC)
finfish workshop
• Regional workshop on the economics of marine protected
areas (716
K)
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Coastal
Fisheries Management Section |
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• Apia Policy endorsed
by ministers
• Assistance with fisheries management ordinances in the
Marshall Islands
• Sea cucumber management plan for Yap (88
K)
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Nearshore
Fisheries Development
and Training Section |
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• Fourth SPC Sea
Safety Bulletin published
• Fiji School of Maritime and Fisheries Studies:
Training attachment in Nelson, New Zealand
• First competent authority training in Nelson, New
Zealand (124
K)
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Aquaculture Section |
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• New SPC Freshwater
Aquaculture Officer appointed
• Fourth Fisheries Ministerial Conference held in Palau
• Aquaculture updates from Palau
• Regional aquaculture status report presented to FFC
Fisheries Officials and Ministers meeting
• Workshop on preventing biological invasions
• Dr Dale Hamilton engaged as SPC aquatic biosecurity
consultant
• Hatchery production and restocking of sandfish in
community-managed fishing rights areas (qoliqoli), Fiji
Islands
• Report now available on the preliminary assessment of
the potential for post-larval fish capture and culture,
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
• Vanuatu Aquaculture Development Plan 2008-2013
available
• Seventh symposium on diseases in Asian aquaculture (316
K)
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| NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND THE REGION |
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• A water goldmine
for "biotech"
• Optimising
fisheries benefits in the Pacific Islands: Major issues
and constraints
• Press release (96
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| FEATURE
ARTICLES |
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Livelihood
diversification as a marine resource management tool in
the Pacific Islands: Lessons learned, by Robert
Gillett, Garry Preston, Warwick Nash, Hugh Govan, Tim
Adams, and Michelle Lam (116
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Support for the Tongan
half-pearl industry, by Antoine
Teitelbaum, Paul Southgate, Andrew Beer, Poasi Fale
Ngaluafe, and Martin Finau (340
K) |
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Practical safety and
fishing course for Pacific Island fisheries officers, by William Sokimi (468
K) |
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| Complete issue in
PDF format:
Fisheries Newsletter #125
(2.4 Mo)
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