Coastal and Marine Resources
Beth
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03 Aug 2011
The Department of Environment and Conservation-administered Environment Act 2000 provides for the regulation of environmental impacts on coastal and marine resources resulting from development, environmental protection, and national water resources management.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) supports a plethora of coastal habitats, resources and environments including deltaic flood plains, estuaries, tidal flats, mangroves, beaches near shore environments such as bays, lagoons, sea grass beds, coral...
Beth
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02 Aug 2011
Palau has a National Tuna Fishery Management Plan, and a draft National Aquaculture Strategy and Development Plan (NASDP).
The in-shore fishery industry in Palau is a dynamic, multi-species industry involving individual fishers feeding their families, providing food for traditional customs and selling to commercial markets, restaurants and selective buyers for export. However, existing data shows a recent decline in yield for nine of fourteen states for which there are data. Decline in catch...
Beth
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02 Aug 2011
Niue's Sustainable Coastal Development Policy was adopted in 2008. Niue also has an Integrated Coastal Management Plan, and a National Tuna Fishery Management and Development Plan
With respect to the fishing sector, Niue does not boast the abundance of fishery resources like its cousins to the north. Fishing activities are at a subsistence level due to limited inshore fishing resources. Niue’s fishing grounds are not particularly fertile as there is little surface runoff to provide...
Beth
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01 Aug 2011
The Government of Nauru developed a National Fisheries Development Strategy.
Marine resources are of critical subsistence importance, although currently of limited local commercial importance. Although Nauru’s fisheries resource is still relatively plentiful, there is a need to manage and monitor marine resources so as to ensure sustainability in the future. Fishing pressure and intensity have increased dramatically since the mid-2000s, with almost all households involved in fishing....
Beth
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01 Aug 2011
The challenge that is currently facing all the FSM States is the formulation of a consistent legal law that protects all near-shore resources of the FSM States.
The marine environment is of enormous importance to the people of the Federated States of Micronesia. The nation’s marine resources are extensive and in many ways central to the future social, cultural, and economic prospects of the FSM. Historically, the inshore and near-shore marine environment is the source of a wide variety...
