Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Department of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
17 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
34846
Legacy PEIN ID:
74848
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Coastal zone - Management - Samoa
Environment - Protection - Samoa
Abstract
Fishing has always been an important subsistence activity in western Samoa. Referring to Samoa's marine fish resource Kramer (1888) wrote naturally,there are fishes throughout the whole year,for the sea is as inexhaustible as the land'. How much truth this statement holds for the present is open to speculation.Jordan and Searle(quoted in grattan 1948)referred to samoas fish fauna as one of the richest on the globe.This may have been true in the past but is not a so now.Gilson(1970) writes that Consdiering the samoan pattern indeed to have provided, in the past,an ideal basis for comfortable and convient settlement.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Department of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
17 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
34846
Legacy PEIN ID:
74848
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 08-Aug-2008
Record Modified: 23-Feb-2021