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A Regional Survey of the Aquaculture Sector in the Pacific

Year of publication 1989

Author Stephen Nelson ;Office of Assistant Director-General

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Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The nations and island territories which make up the region of the Pacific have neither individually nor collectively much importance as far as global aquaculture production is concerned. For the most part aquaculture production data, like that of other commodities, are included and lost in the regional association 'Asia and the Pacific'. In spite of its anonymity, compared with that of its important status in neighbouring Asia, aquaculture in the Pacific region is not without some tradition. The ancient Polynesians had considerable understanding of the natural history of useful marine food fishes which enabled them to practise a simple form of husbandry and management in coastal ponds they constructed within the coral reefs. Furthermore, the ownership of fish ponds and fish was an important symbol of chieftainship. Few of these ancient fish ponds remain in production, and in recent years the islanders have applied modern practices onshore. The Pacific Region which forms this sur vey is 'made up of the Pacific Islands and the countries of Australasia.

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