Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Department of Environment and Conservation
National Fisheries Authority, PNG
Publication Year:
2010
Publication Place
PNG
Physical Description:
57p. : ill. (col.) ;
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
40388
Legacy PEIN ID:
80447
General Notes
Online only
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Marine resources - Coral reefs - Fisheries - PNG
Marine resources - Fisheries - Food security - PNG
Marine biodiversity - Coral reefs - Fisheries - PNG
Marine resource management - Coral reefs - Fisheries - PNG
Marine resources - Management program - PNG - Oceania
Marine - Coral reefs - Seagrass - Mangroves - PNG - Oceania
Marine - Papua New Guinea - Oceania
Protected areas - Oceania
Protected areas - Management
Marine resource
Marine resource management
Marine resources - Pacific - Oceania
Protected areas
Papua New Guinea
Abstract
Coral Reefs, Seagrass beds, mangroves, sand and mud shore and intertidal flats, Barrier dunes and their associated lagoons, deltaic floodplains and estuaries, rocky shorelines, reef walls and drop-off areas, sea mounts from the complex marine habitats of PNG. Marine organisms associated with this array of habitats are important components of the rich marine biodiversity of Papua New Guinea. Coral diversity is typically very high in Papua New Guinea's reefs and this is globally significant. In Kimbe Bay of West New Britain, a total of 345 species of coral were reported. This number compares favourably to that of other detailed surveys conducted in Australia, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and elsewhere in Papua New Guinea and at the time was amongst the highest ever reported from such a small area. Two thirds of the coral reefs surveyed had high levels of live reef cover (greater than 50%), and many individual sites had extensive areas of very high coral cover (greater than 75%) indicating the near pristine state of the coral reefs at those locations.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Department of Environment and Conservation
National Fisheries Authority, PNG
Publication Year:
2010
Publication Place
PNG
Physical Description:
57p. : ill. (col.) ;
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
40388
Legacy PEIN ID:
80447
General Notes
Online only
Record Created: 16-May-2016
Record Modified: 23-Feb-2021