MODALITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: FISHERY RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN SAMOA

CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations

I. INTRODUCTION: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

II. FISHERY RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT IN SAMOA

1. Development issues
1. Demand, supply and licensed exports/imports of fishery products
2. Consumption patternss
2. Inshore and marine pollution issues
3. Policies and institutional arrangements
1. Environment
2. Sustainable supply issues
3. Potential ways these arrangements conflict and assist each other
4. Weaknesses of the political policies

III. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF FISHERY RESOURCES IN SAMOA

1. Selection of assessment criteria
1. Diagnostic analysis of pressures on the fishery resources
2. Fishery resources assessment
1. Key parameters for fishery resources assessment
2. Fishery industry assessment parameters
3. Indicators of the condition of the habitats and stocks
3. Assessments conducted by the National Fisheries Division
4. The FAO/UNDP Fisheries Research and Stock Assessment Project
1. The FAO/UNDP inshore fisheries resources assessment for management in Samoa project
2. Methodologies
3. Stock assessment and habitat surveys using visual census techniques
4. Coral habitat assessment
5. Offshore fisheries
6. Trade-offs in selection of these methodologies
7. How assessments interact with and impact on economic decision making
5. Methodologies for monitoring fisheries
1. Selected methodologies for monitoring fisheries and their effectiveness and weaknesses
2. Trade-offs in selection of these methodologies
6. Methodologies used in other countries
1. Selected methodologies and their effectiveness and weaknesses
2. NGOs working with government and communities
3. Governments working with communities
4. Trade-offs in selection of these methodologies
5. How assessment and monitoring interacts with economic decision-making.
7. Summary of the modalities
1. Selected methodologies, including computer-based techniques, and their effectiveness and weaknesses.
2. Trade-offs and cost-benefit analysis in selection of these methodologies
3. Ways in which these interact with and impact on economic decision-making.

IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Conclusions
1. Oceanic fisheries
2. The inshore fishery
3. Custom marine tenure systems: a valuable resource management tool
2. Recommendations

Annexes

Composition of the study team and people interviewed

Tables

1. Key economic indicators
   
2. Samoan Government records of finfish products exported for food in the 4-month period March-June 1995 (Bell 1996)
   
3. Consumption of fisheries products (FAO 1993)
   
4. Samoan environmental legislation
   

Figures

1. Samoan fisheries production and exports, 1996
   
2. Samoan Alia fishing boat rigged for longlining
   
3. Areas fished by subsistence fishers in Samoa
   
4. Households that sell a portion of their fish catch
   
5. The Apia fish market and the commercial Alia fleet
   
6. The fisheries extension process in Samoa (King 1996)
   
7. Data linkages between FDES, NRA, and the SNA (United Nations 1991)
   
8. Selling tuna at the market in Apia
   
9. Undersized lobsters in the Apia fish market, February 1997
   
10. Children are fascinated by fish and are willing to help study them
    
11. School children participating in a beach survey in New Zealand

References

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