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Fisheries Newsletter
Fix this textNUMBER: 140 (January-April 2013)
Fix this textISSN: 0248-076 X
Fix this textIn this issue
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Fix this textPage 2 SPCparticipates in purse-seine bycatch mitigation
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Fix this textPage 5 My career in fisheries observing: A story for aspiring
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Fix this textPage 8 A new approach to monitoring FAD programmes
Fix this textPage 9 Survey for milkfish fry collection in the Arnavon
Fix this textIslands, Solomon Islands
Fix this textPage 11 Practical training on seaweed culture in Indonesia
Fix this textPage 13 The latest information on fisheries, aquaculture
Fix this textand climate change in the Pacific
Fix this textNews from in and around the region
Fix this textPage 14 "Fish and People": An innovative fisheries science
Fix this textlearning tool for the Pacific
Fix this textPage 16 Sea cucumber identification cards help
Fix this textsustainable reef management in Fiji
Fix this textPage 18 Community-based resource management pre-
Fix this textawareness training for communities in the Solomon
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Fix this textPage 21 The Nago Island Marine Research Facility in Papua
Fix this textNew Guinea is up and running
Fix this textPage 22 New policy brief on mangroves
Fix this textFeature articles
Fix this textPage 24 Effective management of sea cucumber fisheries and
Fix this textthe beche-de-mer trade in Melanesia
Fix this textPage 43 Towards a new management strategy for Pacific Island
Fix this textsea cucumber fisheries
Fix this textEditorial
Fix this textSea cucumbers, or beche-de-mer as we call their dried and marketable form, are
Fix this texttodays special in this issue. Few people know that these strange looking creatures
Fix this textlying lazily in shallow areas of tropical waters are the targets of the second-most
Fix this textvaluable capture-based, export fishery in the South Pacific, second only to tuna.
Fix this textUnfortunately, these targets have been hit so hard in recent years that several
Fix this textPacific Island countries, which are among the main producers, have banned their
Fix this textfishing for up to 10 years, in the hope that stocks will recover.
Fix this textIn the first feature article (p. 24), Carleton and co-authors explain why “the key
Fix this textpriority [for sea cucumber management] is to break or moderate the boom-
Fix this textand-bust cycle typical of this industry.” They also demonstrate how using more
Fix this textprecautionary production levels (which would allow the production of a higher-
Fix this textvalue species mix and larger sea cucumbers) and better processing techniques
Fix this textwould provide far greater economic returns (almost the double of what the
Fix this textfishery actually does), and would eliminate the need for moratoria. In other
Fix this textwords, year after year, national economies, particularly cash-starved rural coastal
Fix this textcommunities, would benefit from increased revenues.
Fix this textIn the second feature article (p. 43), Leopold and co-authors confirm Carleton’s
Fix this textconclusions. They describe how, in New Caledonia, a sandfish sea cucumber
Fix this textfishery is co-monitored and co-managed, using an original total allowable
Fix this textcatch (TAC) system, by a coastal community and local authorities, under the
Fix this textscientific guidance of the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD).
Fix this textBetween 2008 and 2012, the sandfish biomass in the study area nearly tripled,
Fix this textwhile the average income per fisher nearly doubled, even though the number
Fix this textof fishers increased during the period... a success story, for sure!
Fix this textTransposing the TAC management system used at the New Caledonia site
Fix this textto another social context and a wider geographic scale will certainly be
Fix this texta challenge. But, among the many lessons learned while reading these two
Fix this textarticles, I will certainly remember one: limiting captures can provide far
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Fix this textAymeric Desurmont
Fix this textFisheries Information Specialist (aymericd@spc.int)
Fix this textFishing for milkfish fry using a hulldozernet, Arnavon Islands, Solomon Islands (image: Tim Pickering).
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Fix this textPrepared by the Information Unit, Division of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems
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