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Book (series)Marine fishery resources of the Pacific Islands 2010
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No results found.This document updates and expands an earlier review by FAO of the marine fishery resources of the Pacific Islands. The Pacific Islands region consists of 14 independent countries and 8 territories located in the western and central Pacific Ocean. The region’s fishery resources can be broadly split into two main categories: oceanic (offshore) and coastal (inshore). Oceanic or offshore resources include tunas, billfish and allied species. They are characterized by an open-water pelagic habitat and potentially extensive individual movements. Coastal or inshore resources include a wide range of finfish and invertebrates. They are characterized by their shallow-water habitats or demersal life-styles and restriction of individual movements to coastal areas. This paper discusses these two resource categories. Information is provided on the major types of fishing, the important species, the status of those resources and the fisheries management that occurs. -
Book (stand-alone)A short history of industrial fishing in the Pacific islands 2007
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No results found.This short history explores the development of industrial fishing in the 22 countries and territories in the central and western Pacific Ocean. It traces the first substantive industrial fishing which was carried out by the Japanese in the 1920s and 1930s to the development of sashimi freezer longlining by the Japanese and tuna purse-seining by the Americans. Important recent developments in the Pacific islands include the entry of tuna vessels from China into the fishery and the developme nt of domestic longlining in most countries. Besides industrial tuna fishing, which occurs in the waters of all Pacific island countries, the only other significant form of industrial fishing in the Pacific islands region is shrimp trawling in Papua New Guinea. This document concludes with some important lessons learned, namely that government-owned tuna fishing companies are rarely successful and that most industrial-scale opportunities for the foreseeable future are likely to be tun a-related. -
DocumentPacific Island Fisheries - regional and country information 2002
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No results found.In general, the Pacific Islands increase in size from east to west. Most islands rise steeply from the deep ocean floor and have very little underwater shelf area. Coral reefs characteristically surround the islands, either close to the shore (fringing reef) or further offshore (barrier reef), in which case a coastal lagoon is enclosed. The area includes many atolls, which are the remnt barrier reefs of islands that have subsided. Some of the more recent islands in the area lack coral reefs. M angrove forests often border the inshore waters, especially of the larger islands, and provide habitat for the juveniles of many important food fish. Because of the relatively small size of most islands, major bodies of fresh water are not widespread in the sub-region, with substantial rivers and lakes only being found in some of the larger islands of Melanesia. The small land areas of most islands create limited freshwater and nutrient runoff, resulting in low enrichment of the nearby sea. The ocean waters of the area are usually clear and low in productivity. Upwellings occur in the boundaries between currents and in other localized areas, and have important implications for the harvesting of marine resources. The dispersed ture of the region’s land among this vast area of water has several consequences for fisheries magement. In regard to inshore resources, the presence of numerous patches of land and their associated coastal and coral reef areas, separated by large distances and so metimes abyssal depths, means that many species with limited larval dispersal can be effectively maged as unit stocks. On the other hand, magement of shared stocks of highly migratory species such as tus can only be effective if carried out on a multi-country basis. The presence of extensive areas of intertiol waters (high seas) among the region’s EEZs greatly complicates the region’s fishery magement efforts. Fishery Statistics in the Region The long time series of FAO catch statistics used in the compilation of the Catch Profiles for other regions are aggregated by FAO Statistical Area and thus cannot be used where the region to be reviewed incorporates parts of one or more areas, as is the case with the Pacific Islands. In addition, much of the region’s tu catch is taken by distant-water fishing tions (DWFNs) and is thus reported by FAO in the catches of other statistical areas.
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