SPC partnerships with Women Entrepreneurs in Fisheries
Katarina Baleisuva is a full-time farmer and the owner of Kaybee Farm, in Fiji. Since 2011 she has been running a self-funded successful integrated farm which includes tilapia fish farming. Through these earnings, she has successfully educated her…
Promoting responsible fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific through information and awareness-raising tools: International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022
Practising what you teach: field-based training with SPC’s e-data systems
Bringing back the personal touch is important when following up online training. Scientists from the Pacific Community (SPC) develop e-data systems to be relevant to member’s specific needs, and how better to get to know these individual requirements…
Regional Aquaculture Project successfully completed
A regional project on aquaculture, the Sustainable Pacific Aquaculture Development Activity, was successfully implemented across the Pacific Community’s 22 Pacific Island country and territory (PICT) members over five years from 30 June 2016 to 30 June…
Delivery of 1000 Covid test kits to Samoa allows critical fisheries data work to continue
The recent surge in Covid cases in Samoa over the past two months has strained national government resources to provide Covid test kits to all personnel. The Samoa Health Department identified the Apia Fish Market and the International Wharf at Matautu…
Using COVID-19 travel bans to precipitate a digital transition in coastal fisheries science
Collecting scientifically robust data to understand and sustainably manage coastal fisheries across the Pacific requires sustainable and well-designed scientific monitoring programmes – an outcome that has proven to be a difficult objective, given the…
How much do you know about sea cucumbers, apart from being soft, slimy and wrinkled?
How much do you know about sea cucumbers, apart from being soft, slimy and wrinkled?
Sea cucumbers are obsessed with cleaning marine sand, this is how they feed.
By filtering sand, sea cucumbers remove decaying organic matter from our ocean floor. This…
Do you know why some Pacific Lagoon corals are resistant to climate change?
Photo: Corals in New Caledonia, Credit: SPC/Pauline Bosserelle
Digital terminal, interactive quiz and videos: new awareness tools for sustainable fishing
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