Authors: Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and SPC

Title: Samoa Aquaculture Management and Development Plan – 2013 – 2018

Source: SPC

Date: 2012

Keywords: Samoa, Aquaculture, Management, Development Plan

Abstract: Samoa’s diverse aquatic flora and fauna resources are readily available from its surrounding coastal environment. Most form the basis of the country’s local subsistence, artisanal and commercial fisheries. The inshore fishery resources, in particular, are vital as food and income for the rural fishing communities. Although enterprise-led commercial aquaculture has not yet taken root in Samoa, aquaculture is widely recognised as a viable means of increasing fisheries production, as additional protein for the local population and as a means of generating income.

The Strategy for Development of Samoa (SDS) recognises the potential role of aquaculture, and specifies that one of the activities is to ‘increase the harvestable stocks of fish and other marine resources’ by developing ‘fish farming to supplement natural stocks’. Aquaculture has already contributed to improvement of Samoa’s resource status, through re-introduction and re-stocking of giant clam and trochus.

 

Authors: MMR and SPC

Title: Cook Islands Aquaculture Development Plan – 2012 -2016

Source: SPC

Date: March 2013

Keywords: Cook Islands, Aquaculture, Development Plan

Abstract: Aquaculture is a relatively recent activity in Cook Islands, dating only from the early 1970s. By the mid-1980s, however, Cook Islands had emerged as one of the region’s major players (in terms of value) based on the success of the blacklip pearl farming industry.

Title: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Aquaculture Development Plan 2011-2015

Author: Northern Marianas College – SPC aquaculture section

Source: SPC

Keywords: CNMI – Aquaculture development plan

Abstract :  The completion of an aquaculture development plan for CNMI could not be more timely: CNMI has witnessed a recent and drastic economic downturn. Spurred by the need for economic diversification, the CNMI Department of Commerce sponsored an economic summit in 2009, which identified aquaculture as one of the four new pillars of the economy

Title: Orientations pour un développement aquacole à Wallis et Futuna

Author: Trichereau J., Teitelbaum A., Mugneret B.

Source: SPC

Keywords:  Wallis et Futuna, développement, Aquaculture

Abstract : Le secrétariat général de la communauté du Pacifique a souhaité, à la demande de l’Assemblée territoriale de Wallis et Futuna, faire réaliser une étude dont le but était d’établir un plan directeur du développement de l’aquaculture. Cette étude détaillée, menée par le cabinet IDEE Aquaculture (Trichereau, 2009) a permis de développer le document présent.  

Title:Tonga Aquaculture commodity development plan 2010-2014

Author:Ministry of Fisheries of Tonga – Aquaculture section SPC

Source: SPC

Keywords: Tonga – Aquaculture development plan

Abstract : The Aquaculture Management and Development Plan is a five-year “road map” for the future of aquaculture in Tonga. The plan is a tool that will assist government and local  entrepreneurs as well as foreign investors on what type of aquaculture development they should pursue.