Table 1. Recent annual exports of major coastal fisheries and aquaculture commodities from the Pacific islands.
|
Commodity |
Estimated Current Annual Quantities |
|
Sea cucumber |
1 500 tonnes (dried, equivalent to 15 000 tonnes live weight) |
|
Trochus shell |
2 000 tonnes of shell |
|
Pearl shell |
400 tonnes (mainly spent farmed shell) |
|
Cultured pearl |
US $ 100 million value |
|
Eteline snapper (mainly Tonga) |
300 tonnes |
|
Giant clam (mainly Fiji) |
20 tonnes of adductor muscle |
|
Live serranids |
unknown |