Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
Publication Year:
2002
Publication Place
Noumea, New Caledonia
Physical Description:
14 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35190
Legacy PEIN ID:
75193
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Village based - Marine resource management - Vanuatu
Protected areas
Protected areas - Oceania
Protected areas - Management
Marine resource
Marine resource management
Marine resources - Pacific - Oceania
Marine resources - Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Abstract
In 1993 a study of coastal villages in Vanuatu revealed that within the previous three years there had been a rapid increase in marine resource management (MRM) activities. The initial impetus for these events was the Vanuatu Fisheries Department's promotion of a voluntary, village-based trochus management programme. Initially the programme involved only a few fishing villages out of a total of several hundred. The Department surveyed their community trochus stocks, advised the people that regular several-year closures of their trochus fishery, followed by brief openings, would generate far more profit than the usual practice of harvesting continually. They left it to the villagers to decide whether or not to act on this advice.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
Publication Year:
2002
Publication Place
Noumea, New Caledonia
Physical Description:
14 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
35190
Legacy PEIN ID:
75193
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 02-Feb-2009
Record Modified: 23-Feb-2021