Recent developments with the sea cucumber fishery in Solomon Islands Warwick Nash and Christain Ramofafia

By: Contributor(s): Series: Beche-de-Mer information bulletin ; 23Publication details: Noumea, New Caledonia Secretariat of the Pacific Community 2006Description: p.3-4 30 cmSubject(s): Online resources:
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In July 2003, the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) entered Solomon Islands - at the invitation of the national Solomon Islands government - to restore law and order following the outbreak of ethnic tension in the late 1990s and the coup in 2000. The return of generally peaceful conditions occurred within weeks. In late August 2003, the WorldFish Center was invited by the Australian Centre of International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) to develop an outline for a project, in the field of fisheries or aquaculture, that would provide benefits quickly to rural Solomon Island communities. One project emerged clearly as a high priority: implementation of sustainable fishery management practices for the sea cucumber fishery. This project satisfied ACIAR's requirement of immediate returns because preventing further decline of sea cucumber stocks would contribute to sustainable levels of harvest indefinitely into the future (although at a lower level than current), and thereby continue to be an important source of income for local households. The ACIAR-funded project on sustainable management of the beche-de-mer fishery started in January 2005 in the Kia community at the western end of Santa Ysabel (Isabel) Island.
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In July 2003, the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) entered Solomon Islands - at the invitation of the national Solomon Islands government - to restore law and order following the outbreak of ethnic tension in the late 1990s and the coup in 2000. The return of generally peaceful conditions occurred within weeks. In late August 2003, the WorldFish Center was invited by the Australian Centre of International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) to develop an outline for a project, in the field of fisheries or aquaculture, that would provide benefits quickly to rural Solomon Island communities. One project emerged clearly as a high priority: implementation of sustainable fishery management practices for the sea cucumber fishery. This project satisfied ACIAR's requirement of immediate returns because preventing further decline of sea cucumber stocks would contribute to sustainable levels of harvest indefinitely into the future (although at a lower level than current), and thereby continue to be an important source of income for local households. The ACIAR-funded project on sustainable management of the beche-de-mer fishery started in January 2005 in the Kia community at the western end of Santa Ysabel (Isabel) Island.