Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture Priorities in Papua New Guinea

This content highlights the technical priorities, actions taken, and challenges faced in coastal fisheries and aquaculture in Papua New Guinea. It covers key objectives such as policy implementation, capacity building, resource management, and more. The challenges include geographical scale, lack of data, income options, and sustainable financing. Priorities involve policies, funding mechanisms, better fish strains, hatcheries, and livelihood projects undertaken since 2018.

• Coastal Fisheries
• Aquaculture
• Papua New Guinea
• Technical Priorities
• Challenges

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1. Third SPC Regional Technical Meeting on Coastal Fisheries PAPUA NEW GUINEA COASTAL FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE TECHNICAL ISSUES AND PRIORITIES

2. Coastal Fisheries Technical Priorities Objective Outcome 1. Implement effective policies and financing mechanisms 1.1 Institute effective policies, legislations, institutional etc 1.2 Implement an adequate resource mobilisation program 1.3 Establish effective collaboration 2. Capacity building, education, awareness raising and information 2.1 Information to coastal resource stakeholders 2.2 Capacity building 3. Manage, maintain and restore coastal resources 3.1 BDM stocks and coastal fisheries management 3.2 Supplementary and alternative income generating activities

3. Aquaculture Technical Priorities 1. Introduction of better fish strains for freshwater species. 2. Development of hatcheries and distribution centres.

4. Actions taken since RTMCF2 (Nov 2018) 1. Development of a roadmap for coastal fisheries and marine aquaculture for Papua New Guinea: 2017 - 2026 2. Review and gazettal of the National Bech-der-mer Fishery Management Plan 2018 3. Community livelihood projects such as the Inshore Fish Aggregating Device (IFAD) Project, Seaweed Farming, Trap Net Project and Mud Crab Fishery

5. Coastal Fisheries Issues or Challenges Challenges to implementation of effective coastal fisheries management and sustainable development include: 1. geographical scale the large extent of coastlines and near shore marine areas which incur vast logistical challenges; 2. the complexity of coastal fisheries, ecosystems and diverse coastal communities; 3. the lack of appropriate data to inform managers at all levels; 4. limited income generating options and alternative livelihoods for coastal and island communities; 5. the lack of sustainable financing arrangements for people who wish to develop small-to-medium scale commercial activities; and 6. the lack of sustainable marketing and transport infrastructure to enable small-to-medium scale commercial activities, particularly fish markets for coastal and island communities.

6. Aquaculture Issues or Challenges 1. Feed access and production 2. Market availability 3. Mariculture species development