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PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON SEAWEED CULTURE AND MARKETING

SOUTH PACIFIC AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Year of publication 1990

Pages p.21

Author Tim Adams and Roberto Foscarini;Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Eucheuma seaweed culture was initiated and developed in the Philippines in the late 1960's by Dr.Maxwell Doty's team. Today, Eucheuma industry has become one of the most important fishery export industries of the Philippines. Contrary to the Philippines where seaweed farming is widespread and well developed, the Pacific island countries have experienced great difficulties, both of social and economic nature in establishing the cultivation of carrageenophytes. However, the great potential of seaw eed farming in rural development has motivated Pacific countries to look at the seaweed industry very seriously. The first trial of Eucheuma culture in the South Pacific was carried out in Fiji in the mid 1970's with imported seedstock from the Philippines though this trial was not successful. In 1977 another trial of Eucheuma culture was carried out by Dr. M. Doty at Christmas Island, Kiribati. The seedstock of Eucheuma was brought from Hawaii, originally having come from the Philippines. The seed was afterward introduced to Tarawa from Christmas Island in 1981. Then, to Tonga from Tarawa in 1982, to Fiji from Tonga in 1984 and to Solomon Islands from Fiji in 1987. The first commercial shipment of 2 mt dried Eucheuma from the region was made in 1984 from Tarawa. In the region Eucheuma is currently exported from Fiji, Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia. Culture trials are being or have been undertaken in Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and French Polynesia.

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