Vanuatu Coral reef monitoring network project: 2004 Bi-annual progressive report

Abstract

The Vanuatu Coral Reef Monitoring Network Project (VCRMN) is a regional network funded under the Canada South Pacific Ocean Development (CSPOD) programme coordinated by the University of the South Pacific's Institute of Marine Studies at the School of Marine studies Programme (MSP) in Suva Fiji. Under the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the Pacific Node is divided into Polynesian Mana. Micronesian node and South West Pacific Node which covers the Melanesian region. The initiative is a continuation of the former SPREP coordinated coral reef monitoring programme that ended in 1998 without establishing national monitoring programmes in the node member countries.