Leopold, Marc and Ham, Jayven and Kaku, Rocky (2015) Spatial sea cucumber management in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. SPC Beche-De-Mer Information Bulletin (35). pp. 3-9. ISSN 1025-4943
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Many small-scale sea cucumber fisheries have been declining worldwide at an alarming rate as a result of rapid overharvesting and inefficient management. This paper presents the new common management strategy for Vanuatu and New Caledonia’s Northern Province, which was defined as part of an experimental initiative launched in 2008 in 15 small single- and multiple-species pilot fisheries. The results highlighted four main efficiency factors: (i) spatial management and shared governance of fisheries; (ii) defining total allowable catches (TACs) per species and area, using stock biomass; (iii) implementing TAC-based operational spatial management; and (iv) the technical and financial capacities that managing departments need to acquire. Each of these factors was analysed based on the examples examined, and the study shed considerable light on the type of approach that needs to be developed for restoring sea cucumber stocks and improving the management of related small-scale fisheries.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Sea Cucumber, Caledonia, Vanuatu, Small-scale Fisheries, Fisheries Resources, Fisheries Management, TAC, Conservation |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2022 10:32 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2022 10:32 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/13470 |
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