tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82166151675918165772024-03-19T21:34:57.264-07:00CoasvoiceCoasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-66640363477443706652019-03-19T16:13:00.004-07:002019-03-19T16:15:11.428-07:00https://youtu.be/sRH5KzNQxmc<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-2542971177106642102018-02-13T21:32:00.002-08:002018-02-13T21:32:37.173-08:00The Past 20 years Approach to Solution; Political Campaign Attitude in Manus Province<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Talking big and cash handouts comes election time somehow compels elected leaders to entice voters from the village level. This has seem to be the norm for the past 20 years.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">A research of the tangible development happening on the ground will result in many unfulfilled book-report type mission statements, development plans, etc…</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">…</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fine, but many of these development plans assumed that the ability to point out a problem somehow embues one with the ability to solve it.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Reading up on rugby does not mean that <b>you</b> can play the game....or play it well....or play it well enough to win.....or play it well enough to win at a high level.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Most past elected leaders of Manus that have tried to address development aspirations of the province simply do not play the game at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">After 15 years on the job, 3x 5 year development plans have gone thru over millions of Kina without playing the game well enough to be tangible anywhere.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In fact, this track record of our successive government has not exceeded the gains of small privately funded local projects/entrepreneurs in the province for the last 20 years</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Successive leaders claimed to have the qualifications and the experience to treat <i>the cancer in the province; the heavy handed, unsustainable five year development plans</i>, methodologies and government support and subsidy of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Instead they set about redefining the core problems in their own imagination.....and proposed treating peripheral issues, alternative issues, issues en vogue, and side issues that more conveniently fit their own inexperience and association. The development ills of the province, initially against them....became de-facto [albeit] passive government support as they realized their “non- viable and un-implementable" vision" would never amount to anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Supporting <i>that which will never be....</i> is cheap, easy and allows one to claim knowledge of what is really needed in the Province". Letting the development aspirations of the province off the hook with this <i>get out of jail free card</i>, the elected leaders in question were kinda certified as players...and were granted funding from the government which became a gravy train which fed off a momentum without deeds but cash handouts at the end of their term. As elected leaders seldom leave offices, development plans are taken as fact and funding continued with p<i>oor implemented</i> strategies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Staff supported them as condition for employment regardless of personal belief and inside whistle blowers were kept out to allow the unrealistic strategies to push forward without the wake-up calls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Most of their advisors were "service guys" happy to sign on for "validation by association and inclusion in something important" A second tier signed on for that plus....perks, plane-rides, per diem and salaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">This non-involved, in-experienced, cult based gravy train became the "auto-pilot go-to answer "on the eve of election campaign and the rest is a lack of productive history. This type of mentality, stake-holder, lose-lose situation de-railed the chances for real development reform in the 90's which have not reformed as of today….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-51700636960211809682016-10-27T23:05:00.004-07:002018-02-12T15:18:40.848-08:00Seaweed farmers of Kimuta island, Misima, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just recently, we went on a trip to Misima Island in the Milne Bay Province. The purpose of our visit there was to see the seaweed farmers of Kumuta and Bagaman islands because they were having problems with their seaweed farms. For some unknown reasons, seaweed seedling form those areas are not growing outward but inward with bulbing at the tip.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Due to shorter timing of our visit and delay in accessing resources, we only mange to visit Kumuta. It was rather unfortunate we could not got to Bagaman, Brooker, Motorina, Paneati and others in the "Deboyne and Clavados Chain". Despite this, we manage to see a litle to know that the basic fundamentals of seaweed farming wasn't there in those communities. </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">At Kimuta, the farmers are not paying close attention
to their farms albeit, height of interest in the community. There were evidences of algal growth on frame lines, indicating lack of timely maintenance. This
could be because seaweed farming is new to them however, from our observation,
this problem is almost benign and there appears a greater lack of technical
advice and ‘show how’ by seaweed aquaculture officers towards the farmers in the Province. The farmers there are very pragmatic-learning by seeing and should
they been guided well in the beginning, they surely will have developed that trait. Speaking to the farmers, we get the impression that there is inadequate
technical training and support to the farmers. The farmers admitted to briefly
being provided hands on training however, closer support for and greater
guidance during actual planting and implementation wasn’t there. This
highlights a very important need for greater extension work and closer
coordination by seaweed aquaculture officers from both within the province and
NFA in working with the farmers.</span></span></div>
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The bigger problem very noticeable out there is that
farmers are placing their farms against the current (flowing water) instead of
running it in parallel, thereby allowing greater movement and force exerted on the
seaweed lines consequently affecting growth. The method employed is also not
suited for current areas, as the frame lines are placed criss-crossed, like
long line rafts, providing yet greater surface area of exposure to the
currents, adding more pressure on the overall farming infrastructure.
Additionally, the loop material used for “tie tie” (called macramé) is not
suited for current areas as it tangles a lot and even worse, it gets weaker and
breaks off easily. Not really good when the seedlings grow bigger. We even
notice the tying of ‘tie tie’ to the frame lines are not done properly as the
farmers just spin and do a slip knot of the ‘tie tie’ with the seedling attaché onto
the main frame line and that is it- Leave it to the sea and the faith of having
it intact throughout growth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the long term, such method/practise could become
costly, with the unnecessary use of rope infrastructure providing greater
surface area of exposure to currents and that which could become broken,
tangled, and lost to the ocean by current? Having more materials in the sea
would mean more effort in maintenance and costs of material.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second bigger problem however, is that most
farmers are planting inadequate seedling sizes. This we don’t suppose is due to
lack of availability of seedlings but rather blame it on inadequate knowledge
of the required stocking size for the specie. Kappaphycus or Euchema cottoni
requires about a 100g or more of seeding size for better health and growth.
Anything less than that would only act to prolong maturity, subsequently affecting
harvests. In addition, making too many cuts on a tiny seedling only renders it
prone to diseases and can attract growth distortions from various factors in
the environment acting on the farms.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thirdly, and that which is quite visible too is that farming
infrastructures of ropes, lines, and stakes are not intact but loosely held
together which is not very helpful in high current areas such as Kimuta.
While the current is good for natural maintenance and greater growth of
seaweed, it would not help if you have loosely held infrastructure in the water
as this will only aid and abide the force of currents acting on the
farms-providing yet more movement to the seedlings. It is very important to
have the frame lines and ropes tightly intact with greater anchorage at the
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It was also observed that several farms on the island
have developed growth distortions to the crops. The seedlings are growing
inward instead of spreading out. Speaking to the locals,we can confidently assert however, that seedling brought in to Kumuta were taken from an infected pool of
seaweed from other islands which have already developed bulbing tips, and that
which are only now recirculated-, cut, farmed and transferred for further extension. Distribution of such seedlings would continue the problem if not
removed. It would be better to kill all those infected seedlings and
re-introduce better quality seedlings for farming. We also noticed greater growth of
some seedlings on a few of those farms on the island that are doing really well
without any sign of infection and this could be used- be cut and distributed to
other farmers on the island.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In terms of environment, and from our pre-assessment of
the site, we must admit, Kimuta has some very impressive lagoon and habitat
highly favorable for seaweed farming. The vast sandy channel and water quality
and depth at this island is very promising for the prospect of commercial scale
mariculture. The fact that seaweed has grown on the island is a confirmation of
the environment, however, getting the basics right from the start is still a
challenge. More importantly, having knowledge of the locational and
meteorological characteristics of the site of farming is vital as this would be
the baseline to inform a whole lot of other farming aspect. For example,
determining what method employable, including the practise, handling, and
greater maintenance of the farms - all of which will depend on the farmers’
greater understanding of the environmental and climatic/weather conditions of
the site.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Overall, getting the basics right- in terms of the
practice and technical aspect of seaweed farming dealing with the environment
and climatic conditions should form the basis for further capacity building at
the local scale. This is important as future interests and viability will
depend on how much of the information is available to the general
populace. An immediate objective would be for fisheries officers to
conduct more extension and collaborate closely with the farmers so that
important knowledge and skills are imparted to the farmers in developing their
capacity at the farming level. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Seaweed has proven to be a promising source of income
to the islanders since it started. Several exports have been done and farming
has continued. The operation just needs to be revisited with emphasis to put on production of volume
and sourcing market. For logistics wise, Milne Bay, unlike other provinces,
there are regular transport of cargos and goods by small ships to outer stations such as
Misima and others, which the seaweed project could utilise in terms of providing
the back load on returning to Alotau. Speaking to local shop owners at Misima,
ships comes in 3 times in a week to unload cargo, however, there is no back
load for the ships returning to Alotau. If any at all, the ships would be
ferrying passengers and empty fuel drums on their return lag most of
time. This is a very good opportunity for seaweed farmers to utilise.
There is also the option by airplane with PNG airlines landing their plane- few
times a week, including that of charters out of Misima. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Solution working forward</b>- in other words conducting survey of the
environmental and physiographical characteristics at each site (islands) prior
to establishing seaweed is a first step forward. An immediate objective would
be for them to conduct an extension program to the islands already involved or are just
beginning to engage in farming to ensure farming is done correctly. Such
programs should target building capacity at the local scale by way of
conducting hands on training, handling, maintenance etc., with greater
information awareness on environment and weather conditions that will affect
farming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Crop security</b>-
the current period where the buying has stopped and farmers losing interest is
perhaps the most challenging period as this would not only affects farming
effort but rather on the greater security of the crop in the water. the seaweed crop in culture is
non-native to PNG and so it is highly susceptible
to the slightest of the changes in the environment. Farmers neglecting their
farms only lead to the crops out growing its vitality and die out. It
will be expensive to re-introduce the crops among other challenges that might
come up as a consequence. The immediate future challenge for seaweed
cultivation in the province (or country as a whole) would involve
establishment of ‘local’ breeding and production management centres to reduce
the dependency on importation and the development of diagnostic technology to
detect disease/nonindigenous pests together with pathway management,
contingency planning and capacity building at both institutional and farm
level, to manage an outbreak, or loss to natural disasters should one arise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Change of buying practise</b>- The practise in Alotau is such that the farmers are
not given greater leverage but are beholden to the operator for the provision
of seed stock and farming equipment, considerably reducing their
price-negotiating power. In fact farmers are paid on wages and not by the
volume they generate. This has proven to not work out thus far, and the current
feud with the operator over purchases and price has dramatically affected the
operation in Milne Bay. There should be an intervention by the provincial
government and NFA to provide better financing schemes to the seaweed farmers
to fund their capital investments, which would allow them more independence in
their negotiations with the buyers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Securing market and a genuine operator</b>- Current purchases by seaweed operator in the
province have slowed due to unknown reasons but one that we can only speculate as we
did not get the opportunity to meet with them, In the meanwhile, the Provincial
Government would do well to work with NFA to find alternative market and buyer
for seaweed products not only for Milne bay but inconsideration of other
provinces as well. A shadow language here in Milne bay is that the current
buyer operates almost remotely in their own terms which, is not good for the
growth of this industry. If a private partnership should be fostered, it should
be one that shows some responsibility and obligation for the greater growth and
development of this industry in the country and one way to do this is to tie
them own in their licensing condition. An immediate consideration would
be to orchestrate a buying situation similar to Bougainville whereby the AGB
government has established a business arm that buys seaweed and does the
exports. In that way, the revenue generated is channelled back to growth of
seaweed operation for the province.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Production of Volume- </b>While major farms at Ware and other islands where
seaweed farming initially started have gone down following their feud with the
operator; this has not stopped many other outer islands to continue farming. In
fact, a new wave of farming has occurred –this time the lousaide group of
islands with many of the farms in their nursery stages. This could be an
indication that the seaweed farming has had an impact and its success stories
now spreading. While this is good for the growth of the industry and for volume,
it should note however, that some of the newer sites going into seaweed farming
are quite remote and logistically disadvantaged. The farmers need to consider
costs involved, in terms of shipping before they can go into farming. Despite
this seaweed is here to stay and it needs the planners or mangers
involved to be become proactive in their thinking. The way we see it, the atolls
and outer islands of Milne Bay need to generate the volume in order for this
venture to be economically feasible. At the moment, they’re asking for
market but there’s no volume… eventually, farmers effort must also be
complimented with regular buying to keep the activities going and hence, the
marketing component that also needs attention..<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-28499877803288508922015-07-13T22:53:00.001-07:002018-02-13T16:53:26.847-08:00Revisiting Tufi- Land of the long fjords<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">We were on a fish collection expedition mission to Tufi and our team’s curiosity aroused as soon as we landed. It was an Airline PNG Dash 8 plane via Jacksons, Girua and then Tufi. Soon after we landed our team headed straight to local fisheries office for a briefing and then went our way to the resort to pick up our luggage.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">AirlinesPNG dash8 aircraft parked at Tufi airstipe</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "calibri";">Observing the place, I felt it was quite obvious that basic services in Tufi had not improved the last time I checked. For eight years since my last visit, I must admit I was taken aback by the slow progress and neglect of the place despite of it having a thriving world renowned dive tourism resort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thought of this almost unwitting infuriated me for I have formed a perception of such developments for many places I have visited in the past.</span></div>
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It would not be akin to my nature to talk about this however, I have to resolve my personal convictions and catch my team who are new to the place and are fueled with curiosity, at least that’s what I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Avoiding conversing further with locals on the treatment their getting from the resort, I hastily rushed over to my team who have now collected all our luggage and are heading downhill.<br />
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For a while, I thought tufi`s poor infrastructure is unmatched by its beauty and the uniqueness of the scenery and people. At least I had to reassure myself and such thinking almost subtly forgave my misgivings earlier.</div>
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I am back with the team momentarily and having had our luggage picked up, we proceeded to the tufi jetty for our boat ride to Kofure, a small humble guest house situated about 20 minutes ride from the main station. It was Monday and not so many people according to one of our local guide. Strolling down hill, soon we recollected ourselves at the foot of the hill and went straight to buy rations from the only shop there including purchasing our fuel.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Above: tufi jetty area, view from downhill. B. Tufi Resort Jetty and Wharf area</span><br />
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As expected, we found out tufi jetty was as usual with minor activities by the locals going about conducting their business with a few expat guest whom we came with on the plane are already soaking the atmosphere with toe dipped by ramp.</div>
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It was already lunch time by then and we had to allow ourselves a mouthful of the local menu that almost instantly renewed my appreciation for that place. Barbequed red emperor wings and cassava pizza turned out savory and gut pleasing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While enjoying it, my team and I had to mingle about with a few locals who had gathered to watch with such gimmick, probably because of our conversations or that could be for their own inquisition.</div>
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The sea was less choppy and we were riding to Kofure which we intend to stay for the next couple of days while in Tufi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arriving at our destination we were greeted “Oro Kaiva”. This as I expect is a usual tradition of the local tufi people welcoming their guests. The phrase itself means in local vernacular as welcome! The village guest house was as humble as its people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few sacks of sago thatched roof houses bellowing with vivid faces shouting Oro, Oro. Oro Kaiva, that echoed almost continuously until we seated at a makeshift table newly dressed with white linen and red hibiscus flowers reassuring our arrival.</div>
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<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">It was 3 oclock by then and our team deceided it was time to inspect the sea and spot some survey off the reefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">My earlier dive encounters off the area seemed to be refreshed in my mind and I had to soon dicover its reality with enthusism.</span></div>
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The tide was lower at 1.5 meter of sea and we found ourselves walking on the sandy seagrass towards the crest,heading for a deeper enough water to catch some swim. While walking we tumbled upon what seem to be blue little damsels hovering over a patch of digitate porities. I was thrilled to learn what it was for I have known of little cute damsels fishes unique to that area</span><br />
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<![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We had gone down a few more meters and observed so many fish life, however, for me personally it was more of the macro world I thought of. While my team continued along, I was occasionally stopped for a close up of the smaller inconspicuous subjects. The trimna goby was well placed for me and I started focusing on them.</span><!--EndFragment-->
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<![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And even the purple bluish headed nano goby can take a toll on your curiosity too. They would hover over the rock surfaces and inside the ledges in schools. They too are amazingly unique for their kind!</span><!--EndFragment-->
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Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-14581647141119192142011-07-18T05:20:00.000-07:002011-07-19T02:28:39.689-07:00Ship grounding offshore Nauna Island, ManusStay tuned for a cover story on damage assessment of a shipwreck on coral reefs on coast of Nauna Island, Manus Province. Coasvoice team will be sending personnel there for the preliminary assessment of the extent of the damage with the provincial authorities on the ground!Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-61067143215840326002011-01-13T18:43:00.000-08:002011-01-16T19:00:10.190-08:00The Papua New Guinea National Fisheries Authority has lost confidence in Eco EZ Inc to develop the PNG Marine Aquarium Trade.<br />
The Papua New Guinea National Fisheries Authority (NFA) has ceased the allocation of funds to the U.S. based consultancy firm Eco EZ Inc, which formerly held the contract to carry out the “SEASMART” Program. This decision comes as the contract term between Eco EZ Inc and the PNG NFA neared expiration, and the NFA was not satisfied with Eco EZ Inc’s level of performance.<br />
Funding to Eco EZ Inc was cut short for the last quarter of 2010, which was the last quarter of the contract term. <br />
Eco EZ Inc entered into a contract with the Papua New Guinea NFA in 2008. Initially a one year contract to conduct reef survey work in the reefs of PNG and test the feasibility of an aquarium trade, the scope of work and contract term quickly expanded to three years and the development of a sustainable marine aquarium fishery.<br />
15 million kina, approx 5 million USD, were allocated to Eco EZ Inc to carry out the SEASMART program over the three years. The government of Papua New Guinea, through the NFA, was the sole provider of funds to Eco EZ Inc. <br />
Initially the program seemed to be going great, with Eco EZ Inc training local fishers from over 8 villages to sustainably collect marine aquarium life. Exports of these organisms occurred throughout 2009 and 2010, primarily to US importers in Los Angeles. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">PNG marine aquarium life impressed the international community with organisms of stunning beauty and rarity like the pictured PNG lightning maroon clownfish, and will continue to do so when this fishery develops deep into the heart of the extraordinary biodiversity of PNG’s coral reefs and coastal communities. Photo courtesy Ret Talbot.</span><br />
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However, shortcomings in the SEASMART program slowly started to become apparent over time, especially in 2010. A number of contractual objectives were in place that Eco EZ Inc was expected to deliver on, but simply failed to achieve. One example of this is the production of TRADE software. The PNG government allocated a substantial amount of money specifically for Eco EZ Inc to develop this web based organism traceability software. Six months was the established timetable for this TRADE software to be created, and shortly thereafter, NFA management was to be trained on its use. However after nearly three years, Eco EZ Inc was unable to deliver the software, despite spending all of the allocated sum.<br />
In the end, Eco EZ Inc was unable to develop a viable business model that the Papua New Guinea NFA would be able to utilize to attract private sector investment. The combined effect of Eco EZ Inc not meeting their contractual obligations left the PNG NFA no choice but to discontinue funding. <br />
The National Fisheries Authority’s decision to cut funding to Eco EZ Inc is not a reflection of NFA’s position toward the marine aquarium trade in Papua New Guinea however. The NFA still recognizes that the enormous untapped marine resources of PNG’s reefs can bring great benefit to the coastal people of PNG by channeling these resources through a sustainable, equitable aquarium trade.<br />
The PNG NFA is planning to move forward with their own, internally run marine aquarium program, which will be largely based on the core principles of the SEASMART program: sustainability, equitability, profitability. This main aim of this NFA project will be to take the aquarium fishery in PNG from a “project stage” to a fully developed, private sector run industry. Profitability is the one previously unattained area that the NFA hopes it will be able to achieve in 2011. Many employees from the SEASMART program will be incorporated into the new, NFA run program.<br />
“A work plan and budget have already been established for the 2011 PNG marine aquarium program. This next year of operation is expected to deliver a great range and volume of marine aquarium organisms to our international customers. Fish from around the coast of PNG, as well as inverts and cultured corals, should be available at your local fish store by mid 2011,” says Kema Mailu, program “caretaker” of the new NFA run PNG marine aquarium program. <br />
The National Fisheries Authority of Papua New Guinea is a Statutory Authority set up by the PNG Government to monitor, regulate, and develop policy related to fisheries in Papua New Guinea. The National Fisheries Authority of Papua New Guinea is committed to managing fisheries for sustainable benefit.Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-17263640358298292922011-01-13T17:23:00.000-08:002011-01-13T17:23:00.906-08:00Local announcement by NFA.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Public Notice by NFA in the local news papers this moring regading Eco EZ and the PNG marine aquarium Program development.Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-41234876073030641842011-01-10T21:46:00.000-08:002011-01-10T21:46:36.010-08:00SEASMART funding woesStay tuned for the PNG govement side of the story soon to be released!Coasvoice PNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817617949450163421noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8216615167591816577.post-59033911023787726052010-09-27T20:27:00.000-07:002010-09-27T20:27:44.854-07:002010 Traditional Independence Celebrations of Papua New Guinea.<!--StartFragment-->
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traditional singing and dancing. This year the country saw its 35<sup>th</sup>
year of independence. On this day we highlight our beautiful bilas, colors and
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The creation of the first Marine Conservation Deed along the North Coast of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea was the result of nearly two years of community building and outreach.</div>
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Western Pacific Sea Turtle Campaigner Wences Magun tells the story in <a href="http://www.seaturtles.org/downloads/PNGKarkumWenceStory.pdf" style="color: #2729a5; text-decoration: none;">this article</a> that was printed in the Port Moresby newspaper. <a href="http://www.seaturtles.org/article.php?id=1278" style="color: #2729a5; text-decoration: none;">Read the Press Release</a>.</div>
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In this photograph, Karkum villagers sign the Conservation Deed, which is valid for 5 years. <a href="http://www.seaturtles.org/downloads/PNGKarkumDeed.doc" style="color: #2729a5; text-decoration: none;">See the Conservation Deed.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Meme Purgatorio, packing and screening supervisor for the Papua New Guinea SEASMART Program, holds up a plastic cup containing a small Xenojulis species of wrasse. I can see Meme’s broad smile refracted through the seawater in the clear cup. “We call it the Gold Nugget Wrasse,” he says. The fish glimmers as sunlight streaming into the warehouse dances off a mosaic of colorful swirls and blotches. “It’s beautiful,” I say. “Where was it collected?” Purgatorio puts the cupped fish back in the holding system. “Taurama Village,” Meme says. “About an hour from here.”</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="right" alt="" height="191" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/180px-Ret_Talbot.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="150" />A week later I’m in a pick-up truck jostling southeast along the main road out of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea (PNG), toward Taurama village.</span></div>
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Traveling even a short distance reminds one this is one of the most isolated countries on the planet. Just slightly larger than California, there are more than 800 languages spoken here, largely because contact between villages has traditionally been so limited.</div>
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Add tales of cannibalism, deadly snakes, and tribal warfare to the lack of transportation infrastructure, and it is clear why PNG seldom, if ever, makes anyone’s Top 10 Travel Destinations list. This is a shame, as it is truly one the most beautiful, culturally interesting and biologically diverse places on Earth, and for a marine aquarist like myself, it is the aquarium tourism destination of a lifetime.</div>
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The marine aquarium trade came to Papua New Guinea three years ago. In that time, the people responsible for building the trade in PNG have experienced what every industry in PNG experiences: it’s hard doing business in such an isolated country. This is a double-edged sword, for while there is no doubt that PNG’s remoteness is responsible for the country being late to globalization, that isolation is also the primary reason the country’s natural resources, including its reef resources, remain intact.</div>
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Today numerous industries have their eye on this largely unspoiled wilderness of tropical rainforests and reefs rich in resources. Add to these resources the country’s potential as a tourism hotspot and world-class dive destination, and it’s easy to understand why many outsiders look at PNG and see dollar signs—despite the obstacles.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="left" alt="Tufi villager greets Ret Talbot and SEASMART in traditional native dress." height="358" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Tufi.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="250" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />As the pick-up truck swerves to miss a crater-sized pothole on the road to Taurama Village, I am poignantly reminded (as my head thwacks against the window) that this is a country on the verge. It is easy to be cynical about all the multinational companies with good PR and no real interest in understanding what appropriate socio-economic development means to Papuans.</div>
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Many so-called foreign developers' “projects” represent little more than an ATM to many villagers. Timber projects. Liquid natural gas projects. Oil palm projects. The list goes on and on. Fast money in exchange for something. In a country where the idea of a thing going away forever is often as foreign as my own pale skin under the tropic sun, selling resources to apparently well-intentioned outsiders is not uncommon. But how can selling a forest, for example, ever bring sustainable socio-economic gain to a village? Once the forest is gone, the animals are gone and so is the hunting. When the rains come, the terrestrial runoff stifles the lagoons. Reefs die and, with their death, so does the fishery. Will the initial money offered sustain the future generations of villagers who now lack the basic resources necessary to sustain themselves?</div>
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In most of these projects, the real money will only be seen by a handful of Papuans and a small group of foreign investors. While the infrastructure in the urban centers designed to coax foreign investors and foreign money improves, the quality of life for the villagers remains unchanged or, in the worst cases, decreases. So what’s the answer? I’m reminded of a conversation with SEASMART’s director, David Vosseler, when I first arrived in PNG.</div>
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“A village selling their forest to a large foreign logging company could never be sustainable or bring long term socio-economic development to that village,” said Vosseler. “But selling the village a small sawmill and teaching them to use it could provide sustainable socio-economic development for a generation.” Vosseler is talking metaphors here. This is the idea behind SEASMART. <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Like the old adage says, ‘It’s better to teach a man to fish.’” </strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-BF-reject.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rejecting Copperband Butterflyfishes, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chelmon rostratus</em>, on a SEASMART collection boat. Any with blemishes or signs of health problems immediately go back overboard.</span></strong></div>
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SEASMART is an acronym for Stable Economic Advancement through the Sustainable Management of Aquatic Resource Trades. “The name has evolved over the years,” Vosseler tells me, “but the goal has remained largely unchanged. The SEASMART Program is about developing a sustainable marine aquarium trade that supports socio-economic development.” In addition to directing the SEASMART Program, Vosseler is the founder and owner of EcoEZ Inc., a Virginia-based social and environmental consultancy.</div>
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“In 2007, EcoEZ,” he explains, “was commissioned by the Papua New Guinea National Fisheries Authority (NFA) to carry out necessary resource surveys and market trials in order to draw a sufficient level of understanding on the commercial significance of the marine aquarium trade in PNG.” The results were promising, and in 2008, NFA contracted EcoEZ to carry out a one-year nationwide industry trial development program starting in the National Capital District and Central Province. In 2009 that contract was extended two years.</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We near the end of the road at Taurama Village, which overlooks a small inlet opening onto Bootless Bay against a backdrop of dark, cloud-veiled mountains of the New Guinea Highlands. </strong>Taurama, accessible by road from Port Moresby, is not particularly remote, but life here is very different than life in the city. Even with so much talk about captive breeding on the hobby side of the industry, upwards of 95% of marine aquarium animals are still collected from the wild in places like Taurama, and it is largely through these collection efforts that the marine aquarium trade gets its reputation with non-hobbyists. In recent years, the trade’s impact on reef ecosystems and developing island nations has received much negative press.<img align="left" alt="" height="333" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-RAM.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="250" /></div>
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In Tonga, for example, allegations of fisher exploitation and abuse have escalated to homicide, while, in the Banggai Islands, the trade has been implicated in the potential extinction of a species, Pterapogon kauderni.</div>
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Taurama Village has recently become a Fishery Management Area (FMA) working with the SEASMART Program. An FMA is the base unit used in the management of the marine aquarium trade in PNG, and, at the time of my visit to PNG, there are eight FMAs. The process of developing an FMA and training fishers is not quick or easy, but the process itself insures that the industry in PNG is built sustainably from the ground up. Before any fishing is done, preliminary reef surveys evaluate the abundance of marine aquarium resources and the health of the ecosystems in each potential FMA. Baseline data for fish, corals and other invertebrates is collected by the SEASMART-employed Resource Assessment and Management (RAM) team to insure sound scientific assessment and monitoring of the FMA.<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">(See image above of RAM team member doing reef survey before collection begins.)</strong></em></div>
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The SEASMART Program, through the RAM team, evaluates the effectiveness of management by monitoring coral reefs and populations of exploited organisms and comparing them to control areas. In this way, the effects of the trade on reef health and target species’ populations from aquarium fishing are constantly monitored, insuring a sustainable trade over time.</div>
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After the initial assessment work, the SEASMART Program’s Fisher and Fishery Development team moves into the village to begin intensive training on everything from collection equipment construction and species identification to net collection, proper post-harvest handling and holding, documentation, and order management.</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">All collection in PNG is done with soft nets in less than five meters of water, meaning that well-trained PNG fishers provide hobbyists with some of the healthiest animals available in the trade. </strong>By the end of the training, the fishers and community resource owners possess the necessary knowledge, skills and techniques required to manage and implement an environmentally sustainable aquarium industry. The entire process is a model that can be exported to other areas where marine aquarium fishing is done.</div>
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<img alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Puffer.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Spotted Boxfish, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ostracion meleagris</em>, on a PNG reef in a collection area.</span></strong></span></div>
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Good money, I learn, means that a marine aquarium fisher can earn the same wage as the best tuna fisher. That is close to the top of the pay scale in village life. While there is lots of disagreement amidst good-natured ribbing of boastful, albeit perhaps inflated, claims on what a good tuna fisher can make in a day, I consistently hear throughout my time in PNG that a good tuna fisher could gross US$300 in one trip to the food fish market.</div>
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“You can earn that much collecting marine aquarium animals?” I ask in disbelief. PNG is, after all, a country where most people barely earn the equivalent of a US$1 a day.</div>
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“On a very good day,” I’m told. “A very, very good day.” <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Fisherman.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Net-caught and hand-collected are the cast-in-stone bywords for PNG SEASMART.</strong></div>
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The reality is very few PNG fishers will make US$300 from a single marine aquarium order, which may require three days of work. Nonetheless, the marine aquarium trade is providing a viable alternative source of income for some villagers and a very nice supplemental income for others. The more time fishers spend collecting, the more their proficiency increases, as is evidenced by the fact that the highest earning fishers are from the first FMA at Fishermans Island.</div>
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The PNG fishers are targeting many aquarium favorites like Pacific Blue Tangs (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paracanthurus hepatus</em>), Copperband Butterflyfish (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chelmon rostratus</em>), Auriga Butterflyfish (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chaetodon auriga</em>), Dogface Puffers (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arothron nigropunctatus</em>), and several clownfish species, including some of the most beautiful percula clownfish (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amphiprion percula</em>) I have ever seen.</div>
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They are also collecting some beautiful wrasses and some very unusual frogfishes. A few of the lionfishes are absolutely stunning. In terms of high-dollar fishes, while rare color morphs such as the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lightning Maroon Clownfish</strong> (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Premnas biaculeatus</em>), image below, earn a tidy sum, the Papuan epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium hallstromi) is one of the most commonly targeted fishes because of the money it earns for the fisher.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At present, PNG is offering some very nice color morphs to hobbyists, but it is really the health of the animals that makes them such an excellent choice for aquarists. Because of collection techniques and post-collection handling, these fishes are arriving in Los Angeles in better shape than most animals from other countries. In addition to fishes and a variety of great looking invertebrates such as <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Linckia</em>(<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Linckia laevigata</em>) and Chocolate Chip (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Protoreaster nodosus</em>) Stars, SEASMART is currently working with local communities like Taurama to grow out stony coral frags to second generation for easy CITES approval, and PNG soft corals will be available soon.</span></div>
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As I leave Taurama Village, I’m pleased that what I had heard about the marine aquarium trade in PNG is proving sound. While the trade in PNG is not without its very real challenges, from everything I have seen so far, it appears the triumvirate of sustainability, equitability and profitability remain the guiding principle behind what the SEASMART Program is doing. As such, the potential for the PNG trade to become a model that could be applied to other collection countries is very real. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The biggest challenge, of course, is showing that this model can be profitable when it is privatized. The NFA and, by extension, the government of PNG is firmly behind the development of the marine aquarium industry in PNG at present because they see the potential to develop an industry that will support remote coastal villages that are presently falling behind the development of urban areas.</div>
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The fact we are now rushing back to Port Moresby from Taurama Village in order to reach the house where I am staying before nightfall is indicative of the growing disparity between urban centers and remote villages. There is a settlement we must drive through to get to the house, and the driver explains it is best not to drive through the settlement after dark. Settlements are the result of a small segment of the country stepping forward, while the vast majority is left behind. Settlements have cropped up in urban centers throughout PNG as villagers migrate to the cities in search of an intangible promise evidenced by the hallmarks of globalization which will elude most. With rampant unemployment in the cities, too many of these urban migrants end up in settlements, where despair often leads to alcohol abuse, lawlessness and violence. “We should bulldoze them,” the driver says about the settlements, but clearly the solution is far more complex.</div>
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Despite the settlements, Port Moresby is not a scary city compared to many where I have traveled. Like an adolescent taking those first tentative, albeit sometimes misguided, steps toward adulthood, Port Moresby is far from a finished product, but the overwhelming friendliness of the Papuans makes it a city in which the seasoned traveler can quickly feel comfortable. The heart of the downtown area, simply called Town, is a striking contrast to the outlying areas. Taking the elevator to the eleventh floor of the Deloitte Tower, where the National Fisheries Authority has its offices, on the day after my visit to Taurama Village drives this point home. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="middle" alt="" height="318" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Tufi_Damselfish.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Unidentified Pomacentrid that is proving to be a popular aquarium species. DNA testing is underway and a species ID will follow.</strong></span></div>
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I follow Kema Mailu, SEASMART Program Assistant Director, out of the elevator, past a saltwater aquarium the SEASMART program has installed in the reception area and down a hallway to the NFA director’s office. NFA Managing Director Sylvester Pokajam is in a meeting, so Mailu and I sit down to wait. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in greater depth with Mailu, as he is someone who grew up in a remote village. He is an advocate for development of the Nation, but development that will not leave the villagers behind and will not destroy the culture and traditions of village life.</div>
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“Papua New Guinea is a young country as far as coming into nationhood is concerned,” Mailu reminds me. PNG will be 35 years old this year. “As a recent entrant into the world economy, where competition is often aggressive and fierce, Papua New Guinea really has not much choice but [to] leap in the national development process in order to be noted and heard on the global scene. Our country has undergone a tremendous level of change over the past 20 years in an attempt to build and modernize the economy. These strides toward development have indeed very much advanced the national economic outlook of the country. However, this has also created a negative impact on the country’s 85% of population who are basically rural-based and living in village communities.”</div>
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Mailu tells me about his frequent trips back to his village and the changes he has witnessed. “The urge for the country to get global recognition in its economic development planning and management has totally forgotten to bring into stream the rural communities,” he says. “This created a growing gap between the well-off urban centers and the rural areas. Papua New Guinea must reassess its development policy priorities and strategies so that the process of nation building begins from the bottom up—that is at the grassroot level,” Mailu tells me as we go into a meeting that will confirm Pokajam’s enthusiasm and support for PNG’s marine aquarium trade.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="340" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Bonnet_Clownfish-%28Amphiprion-leucokranos%29.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A rarity found in PNG is the Whitebonnet Anemonefish, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amphiprion leucokranos</em>, a likely hydrid of </strong></span><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A. sandaracinos and A. chrysopterus</em></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">.</span></div>
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PNG is not the only developing island nation where the marine aquarium trade is working with sustainability, equitability and profitability in mind. Parts of the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tahiti and a few other collection points are doing it right, but largely because of the visions and directions of a few foreign owners of collection stations. In PNG, the vision is for the SEASMART Program to show how a sustainable, equitable and profitable trade can be run and then to privatize it within the context of established government oversight. At this point, the SEASMART Program is not profitable, as every element of the project is still coming up to speed. With only eight FMAs located in only one province, volume, availability and species diversity is still too limited to secure the quantity of orders necessary from importers in the U.S., Europe and Japan to make the Program profitable. Government money, as well as money from other investors, is filling the void during the development phase, but the trial period is quickly coming to an end. As such, this is a critical time for PNG’s emerging trade in marine aquarium animals.</div>
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It is also a critical time for the ecosystems themselves, and this is one reason why many people in the marine aquarium industry want to see the SEASMART Program succeed in establishing a sustainable, equitable and profitable trade in PNG. The degradation of reef habitats anywhere in the world is cause for concern, but in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines, the stakes are even higher. These are three of the six countries that make up the Coral Triangle, an area about half the size of the United States that is home to the greatest diversity of tropical marine species on Earth. More than three-quarters of the world’s known coral species and nearly forty percent of the world’s tropical reef fishes can be found here, and more than 200 of those reef fishes are found nowhere else on the planet. If these reefs crash, we potentially lose some of the most important marine life diversity on Earth. Some even argue that a crash of the Coral Triangle will have a domino effect that will eradicate all tropical reef life as we know it.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="326" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-WOW.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Still largely off the maps of the diving masses and only recently opened to marine aquarium collection, Papau New Guinea has unspoiled reefs that all stakeholders want to protect from damaging exploitation.</span></strong></div>
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While some naively advocate the entire Coral Triangle be made into a marine protected area and no-take zone, the reality is that more than 120 million people are directly sustained by the resources in the region. Valued at more than $2.3 billion, the Coral Triangle, like PNG, represents big money to many industries, including the multi-billion dollar tuna industry and the largely untapped natural gas industry. The marine aquarium industry is admittedly a much smaller player in terms of global trade, but it still has a significant impact on the Coral Triangle. As many as eighty percent of saltwater aquarium fishes originate from the Coral Triangle, with the vast majority coming from Indonesia and the Philippines, and this is potentially the biggest impediment to the SEASMART Program’s success in PNG.</div>
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“The unceasing demand for lower prices has effectively driven the trade in Indonesia and the Philippines to the unsustainable position they are presently in,” says Vosseler. A report published by the World Resources Institute estimates that eighty-eight percent of Southeast Asia’s reefs are threatened, and unsustainable fishing practices are the number one threat. While the food fish industry is having a far larger impact on the region’s reefs than the marine aquarium industry, there is no excuse for the marine aquarium industry’s long-standing relationship with destructive fishing practices such as cyanide use, he says. “It takes more skill and time to collect a fish with a net than cyanide.” <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="348" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Vosseler.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">David Vosseler, PNG SEASMART head, presents a diploma to a Papuan man who has graduated from fisher training.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Vosseler believes a fresh start for the trade in PNG is better than trying to reform a system that is, in many people’s estimations, already broken. “I think any country can do what we are doing. This is not rocket science, but it takes long-term commitment and support at all links of the chain. To make the radical changes necessary to create a truly sustainable industry in a place like Indonesia or the Philippines, more flexibility is required, at least in the earlier stages. Both these countries have strong built-in resistance to real change. The problems extend from the exporters and their buyers to the fishers themselves, most of whom don’t have effective resource rights and responsibilities to the areas where they live, nor any real power to manage these resources. Things are different in Papua New Guinea, and this is why SEASMART sees PNG as ground zero for the marine aquarium trade of the future.”</span></div>
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My time in PNG is coming to a close, and despite spending weeks looking at every aspect of the trade, travelling about the country, meeting fishers, diving on reefs, and eating a lot of really good food, I still have so many questions. Overall, I am cautiously optimistic about the SEASMART Program’s chances to accomplish a monumental feat and build a sustainable, equitable and profitable marine aquarium trade from the ground up in one of the most remote countries on the planet. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="right" alt="" height="276" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG%20Lightning%20Maroon%20Clownfish%20small.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="250" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />As I write from my desk back home in Laguna Beach, California, I am receiving emails from contacts in PNG about survey trips and initial collections in other provinces. New FMAs are being established in areas that will give fishers access to new marine aquarium species, some of which are endemic to PNG and have yet to be seen in the hobby. On my trips up to Los Angeles, I am seeing more boxes arrive on a more regular basis from Papua New Guinea through importers such as<a href="http://www.pacificaquafarms.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pacific Aqua Farms</strong></a> <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">(who brought in the Lightning Maroon Clownfish, above)</strong></em>, <a href="http://www.qualitymarine.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Quality Marine</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.seadwelling.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sea Dwelling Creatures</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.uwwe.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Underwater World</strong></a>, and others.</div>
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Beyond being cautiously optimistic, I am hopeful. I am hopeful not just about the SEASMART Program, but about the industry at large. As hobbyists, we have the ability to use our buying power to positively impact reef conservation and appropriate socio-economic development in developing island nations. We have the ability to show that this industry can truly be on the forefront of reef conservation and knowledge.</div>
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Every one of us with a saltwater aquarium in our home has the chance to introduce family and friends to the amazing, but often unseen, world of the tropical reef, where myriad colors flash through gin-clear water over an undersea forest of multihued coral sheltering a diversity of life found nowhere else on the Planet. We also have the chance to help people understand the challenges these ecosystems face. I am hopeful that we will, to use the cliché, do the right thing. For some of us, that will mean requesting PNG animals in the hopes that supporting a Program like SEASMART will have a transformative effect on the industry and, ultimately, will positively impact the people and resources upon which the industry relies.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> </div>
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A New Frontier for Marine Livestock Collection</h1>
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by <a href="http://en.microcosmaquariumexplorer.com/wiki/Ret_Talbot" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Ret Talbot</a><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Meme Purgatorio, packing and screening supervisor for the Papua New Guinea SEASMART Program, holds up a plastic cup containing a small Xenojulis species of wrasse. I can see Meme’s broad smile refracted through the seawater in the clear cup. “We call it the Gold Nugget Wrasse,” he says. The fish glimmers as sunlight streaming into the warehouse dances off a mosaic of colorful swirls and blotches. “It’s beautiful,” I say. “Where was it collected?” Purgatorio puts the cupped fish back in the holding system. “Taurama Village,” Meme says. “About an hour from here.”</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="right" alt="" height="191" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/180px-Ret_Talbot.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="150" />A week later I’m in a pick-up truck jostling southeast along the main road out of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea (PNG), toward Taurama village.</span></div>
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Traveling even a short distance reminds one this is one of the most isolated countries on the planet. Just slightly larger than California, there are more than 800 languages spoken here, largely because contact between villages has traditionally been so limited.</div>
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Add tales of cannibalism, deadly snakes, and tribal warfare to the lack of transportation infrastructure, and it is clear why PNG seldom, if ever, makes anyone’s Top 10 Travel Destinations list. This is a shame, as it is truly one the most beautiful, culturally interesting and biologically diverse places on Earth, and for a marine aquarist like myself, it is the aquarium tourism destination of a lifetime.</div>
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The marine aquarium trade came to Papua New Guinea three years ago. In that time, the people responsible for building the trade in PNG have experienced what every industry in PNG experiences: it’s hard doing business in such an isolated country. This is a double-edged sword, for while there is no doubt that PNG’s remoteness is responsible for the country being late to globalization, that isolation is also the primary reason the country’s natural resources, including its reef resources, remain intact.</div>
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Today numerous industries have their eye on this largely unspoiled wilderness of tropical rainforests and reefs rich in resources. Add to these resources the country’s potential as a tourism hotspot and world-class dive destination, and it’s easy to understand why many outsiders look at PNG and see dollar signs—despite the obstacles.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="left" alt="Tufi villager greets Ret Talbot and SEASMART in traditional native dress." height="358" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Tufi.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="250" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />As the pick-up truck swerves to miss a crater-sized pothole on the road to Taurama Village, I am poignantly reminded (as my head thwacks against the window) that this is a country on the verge. It is easy to be cynical about all the multinational companies with good PR and no real interest in understanding what appropriate socio-economic development means to Papuans.</div>
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Many so-called foreign developers' “projects” represent little more than an ATM to many villagers. Timber projects. Liquid natural gas projects. Oil palm projects. The list goes on and on. Fast money in exchange for something. In a country where the idea of a thing going away forever is often as foreign as my own pale skin under the tropic sun, selling resources to apparently well-intentioned outsiders is not uncommon. But how can selling a forest, for example, ever bring sustainable socio-economic gain to a village? Once the forest is gone, the animals are gone and so is the hunting. When the rains come, the terrestrial runoff stifles the lagoons. Reefs die and, with their death, so does the fishery. Will the initial money offered sustain the future generations of villagers who now lack the basic resources necessary to sustain themselves?</div>
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In most of these projects, the real money will only be seen by a handful of Papuans and a small group of foreign investors. While the infrastructure in the urban centers designed to coax foreign investors and foreign money improves, the quality of life for the villagers remains unchanged or, in the worst cases, decreases. So what’s the answer? I’m reminded of a conversation with SEASMART’s director, David Vosseler, when I first arrived in PNG.</div>
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“A village selling their forest to a large foreign logging company could never be sustainable or bring long term socio-economic development to that village,” said Vosseler. “But selling the village a small sawmill and teaching them to use it could provide sustainable socio-economic development for a generation.” Vosseler is talking metaphors here. This is the idea behind SEASMART. <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Like the old adage says, ‘It’s better to teach a man to fish.’” </strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-BF-reject.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rejecting Copperband Butterflyfishes, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chelmon rostratus</em>, on a SEASMART collection boat. Any with blemishes or signs of health problems immediately go back overboard.</span></strong></div>
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SEASMART is an acronym for Stable Economic Advancement through the Sustainable Management of Aquatic Resource Trades. “The name has evolved over the years,” Vosseler tells me, “but the goal has remained largely unchanged. The SEASMART Program is about developing a sustainable marine aquarium trade that supports socio-economic development.” In addition to directing the SEASMART Program, Vosseler is the founder and owner of EcoEZ Inc., a Virginia-based social and environmental consultancy.</div>
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“In 2007, EcoEZ,” he explains, “was commissioned by the Papua New Guinea National Fisheries Authority (NFA) to carry out necessary resource surveys and market trials in order to draw a sufficient level of understanding on the commercial significance of the marine aquarium trade in PNG.” The results were promising, and in 2008, NFA contracted EcoEZ to carry out a one-year nationwide industry trial development program starting in the National Capital District and Central Province. In 2009 that contract was extended two years.</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We near the end of the road at Taurama Village, which overlooks a small inlet opening onto Bootless Bay against a backdrop of dark, cloud-veiled mountains of the New Guinea Highlands. </strong>Taurama, accessible by road from Port Moresby, is not particularly remote, but life here is very different than life in the city. Even with so much talk about captive breeding on the hobby side of the industry, upwards of 95% of marine aquarium animals are still collected from the wild in places like Taurama, and it is largely through these collection efforts that the marine aquarium trade gets its reputation with non-hobbyists. In recent years, the trade’s impact on reef ecosystems and developing island nations has received much negative press.<img align="left" alt="" height="333" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-RAM.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="250" /></div>
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In Tonga, for example, allegations of fisher exploitation and abuse have escalated to homicide, while, in the Banggai Islands, the trade has been implicated in the potential extinction of a species, Pterapogon kauderni.</div>
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Taurama Village has recently become a Fishery Management Area (FMA) working with the SEASMART Program. An FMA is the base unit used in the management of the marine aquarium trade in PNG, and, at the time of my visit to PNG, there are eight FMAs. The process of developing an FMA and training fishers is not quick or easy, but the process itself insures that the industry in PNG is built sustainably from the ground up. Before any fishing is done, preliminary reef surveys evaluate the abundance of marine aquarium resources and the health of the ecosystems in each potential FMA. Baseline data for fish, corals and other invertebrates is collected by the SEASMART-employed Resource Assessment and Management (RAM) team to insure sound scientific assessment and monitoring of the FMA.<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">(See image above of RAM team member doing reef survey before collection begins.)</strong></em></div>
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The SEASMART Program, through the RAM team, evaluates the effectiveness of management by monitoring coral reefs and populations of exploited organisms and comparing them to control areas. In this way, the effects of the trade on reef health and target species’ populations from aquarium fishing are constantly monitored, insuring a sustainable trade over time.</div>
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After the initial assessment work, the SEASMART Program’s Fisher and Fishery Development team moves into the village to begin intensive training on everything from collection equipment construction and species identification to net collection, proper post-harvest handling and holding, documentation, and order management.</div>
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<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">All collection in PNG is done with soft nets in less than five meters of water, meaning that well-trained PNG fishers provide hobbyists with some of the healthiest animals available in the trade. </strong>By the end of the training, the fishers and community resource owners possess the necessary knowledge, skills and techniques required to manage and implement an environmentally sustainable aquarium industry. The entire process is a model that can be exported to other areas where marine aquarium fishing is done.</div>
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<img alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Puffer.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Spotted Boxfish, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ostracion meleagris</em>, on a PNG reef in a collection area.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The group of fishers with whom I am gathered on the beach at Taurama Village recently completed their training with the SEASMART Program, and I am curious to see how they perceive the saltwater hobby. They are just as curious to learn more about people in the United States who spend more money in a month on their aquarium than anyone in Taurama Village will likely make in a year. A few of the fishers speak excellent English, but most don’t and much translation ensues as words like “filtration” and “metal halide” are translated from English to Tok Pisin to Motu. The questions come back down the line of languages. We laugh together. These fishers say they are excited to have the opportunity to earn money collecting fish for the marine aquarium trade. “It’s not easy work,” one fisher says, “but we can make good money.”</span></div>
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Good money, I learn, means that a marine aquarium fisher can earn the same wage as the best tuna fisher. That is close to the top of the pay scale in village life. While there is lots of disagreement amidst good-natured ribbing of boastful, albeit perhaps inflated, claims on what a good tuna fisher can make in a day, I consistently hear throughout my time in PNG that a good tuna fisher could gross US$300 in one trip to the food fish market.</div>
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“You can earn that much collecting marine aquarium animals?” I ask in disbelief. PNG is, after all, a country where most people barely earn the equivalent of a US$1 a day.</div>
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“On a very good day,” I’m told. “A very, very good day.” <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Fisherman.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Net-caught and hand-collected are the cast-in-stone bywords for PNG SEASMART.</strong></div>
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The reality is very few PNG fishers will make US$300 from a single marine aquarium order, which may require three days of work. Nonetheless, the marine aquarium trade is providing a viable alternative source of income for some villagers and a very nice supplemental income for others. The more time fishers spend collecting, the more their proficiency increases, as is evidenced by the fact that the highest earning fishers are from the first FMA at Fishermans Island.</div>
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The PNG fishers are targeting many aquarium favorites like Pacific Blue Tangs (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Paracanthurus hepatus</em>), Copperband Butterflyfish (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chelmon rostratus</em>), Auriga Butterflyfish (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chaetodon auriga</em>), Dogface Puffers (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arothron nigropunctatus</em>), and several clownfish species, including some of the most beautiful percula clownfish (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amphiprion percula</em>) I have ever seen.</div>
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They are also collecting some beautiful wrasses and some very unusual frogfishes. A few of the lionfishes are absolutely stunning. In terms of high-dollar fishes, while rare color morphs such as the <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lightning Maroon Clownfish</strong> (<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Premnas biaculeatus</em>), image below, earn a tidy sum, the Papuan epaulette shark (Hemiscyllium hallstromi) is one of the most commonly targeted fishes because of the money it earns for the fisher.</div>
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As I leave Taurama Village, I’m pleased that what I had heard about the marine aquarium trade in PNG is proving sound. While the trade in PNG is not without its very real challenges, from everything I have seen so far, it appears the triumvirate of sustainability, equitability and profitability remain the guiding principle behind what the SEASMART Program is doing. As such, the potential for the PNG trade to become a model that could be applied to other collection countries is very real. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The biggest challenge, of course, is showing that this model can be profitable when it is privatized. The NFA and, by extension, the government of PNG is firmly behind the development of the marine aquarium industry in PNG at present because they see the potential to develop an industry that will support remote coastal villages that are presently falling behind the development of urban areas.</div>
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The fact we are now rushing back to Port Moresby from Taurama Village in order to reach the house where I am staying before nightfall is indicative of the growing disparity between urban centers and remote villages. There is a settlement we must drive through to get to the house, and the driver explains it is best not to drive through the settlement after dark. Settlements are the result of a small segment of the country stepping forward, while the vast majority is left behind. Settlements have cropped up in urban centers throughout PNG as villagers migrate to the cities in search of an intangible promise evidenced by the hallmarks of globalization which will elude most. With rampant unemployment in the cities, too many of these urban migrants end up in settlements, where despair often leads to alcohol abuse, lawlessness and violence. “We should bulldoze them,” the driver says about the settlements, but clearly the solution is far more complex.</div>
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Despite the settlements, Port Moresby is not a scary city compared to many where I have traveled. Like an adolescent taking those first tentative, albeit sometimes misguided, steps toward adulthood, Port Moresby is far from a finished product, but the overwhelming friendliness of the Papuans makes it a city in which the seasoned traveler can quickly feel comfortable. The heart of the downtown area, simply called Town, is a striking contrast to the outlying areas. Taking the elevator to the eleventh floor of the Deloitte Tower, where the National Fisheries Authority has its offices, on the day after my visit to Taurama Village drives this point home. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="middle" alt="" height="318" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Tufi_Damselfish.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Unidentified Pomacentrid that is proving to be a popular aquarium species. DNA testing is underway and a species ID will follow.</strong></span></div>
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I follow Kema Mailu, SEASMART Program Assistant Director, out of the elevator, past a saltwater aquarium the SEASMART program has installed in the reception area and down a hallway to the NFA director’s office. NFA Managing Director Sylvester Pokajam is in a meeting, so Mailu and I sit down to wait. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak in greater depth with Mailu, as he is someone who grew up in a remote village. He is an advocate for development of the Nation, but development that will not leave the villagers behind and will not destroy the culture and traditions of village life.</div>
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“Papua New Guinea is a young country as far as coming into nationhood is concerned,” Mailu reminds me. PNG will be 35 years old this year. “As a recent entrant into the world economy, where competition is often aggressive and fierce, Papua New Guinea really has not much choice but [to] leap in the national development process in order to be noted and heard on the global scene. Our country has undergone a tremendous level of change over the past 20 years in an attempt to build and modernize the economy. These strides toward development have indeed very much advanced the national economic outlook of the country. However, this has also created a negative impact on the country’s 85% of population who are basically rural-based and living in village communities.”</div>
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Mailu tells me about his frequent trips back to his village and the changes he has witnessed. “The urge for the country to get global recognition in its economic development planning and management has totally forgotten to bring into stream the rural communities,” he says. “This created a growing gap between the well-off urban centers and the rural areas. Papua New Guinea must reassess its development policy priorities and strategies so that the process of nation building begins from the bottom up—that is at the grassroot level,” Mailu tells me as we go into a meeting that will confirm Pokajam’s enthusiasm and support for PNG’s marine aquarium trade.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="340" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Bonnet_Clownfish-%28Amphiprion-leucokranos%29.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A rarity found in PNG is the Whitebonnet Anemonefish, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amphiprion leucokranos</em>, a likely hydrid of </strong></span><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A. sandaracinos and A. chrysopterus</em></strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">.</span></div>
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PNG is not the only developing island nation where the marine aquarium trade is working with sustainability, equitability and profitability in mind. Parts of the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tahiti and a few other collection points are doing it right, but largely because of the visions and directions of a few foreign owners of collection stations. In PNG, the vision is for the SEASMART Program to show how a sustainable, equitable and profitable trade can be run and then to privatize it within the context of established government oversight. At this point, the SEASMART Program is not profitable, as every element of the project is still coming up to speed. With only eight FMAs located in only one province, volume, availability and species diversity is still too limited to secure the quantity of orders necessary from importers in the U.S., Europe and Japan to make the Program profitable. Government money, as well as money from other investors, is filling the void during the development phase, but the trial period is quickly coming to an end. As such, this is a critical time for PNG’s emerging trade in marine aquarium animals.</div>
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It is also a critical time for the ecosystems themselves, and this is one reason why many people in the marine aquarium industry want to see the SEASMART Program succeed in establishing a sustainable, equitable and profitable trade in PNG. The degradation of reef habitats anywhere in the world is cause for concern, but in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines, the stakes are even higher. These are three of the six countries that make up the Coral Triangle, an area about half the size of the United States that is home to the greatest diversity of tropical marine species on Earth. More than three-quarters of the world’s known coral species and nearly forty percent of the world’s tropical reef fishes can be found here, and more than 200 of those reef fishes are found nowhere else on the planet. If these reefs crash, we potentially lose some of the most important marine life diversity on Earth. Some even argue that a crash of the Coral Triangle will have a domino effect that will eradicate all tropical reef life as we know it.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="326" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-WOW.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Still largely off the maps of the diving masses and only recently opened to marine aquarium collection, Papau New Guinea has unspoiled reefs that all stakeholders want to protect from damaging exploitation.</span></strong></div>
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While some naively advocate the entire Coral Triangle be made into a marine protected area and no-take zone, the reality is that more than 120 million people are directly sustained by the resources in the region. Valued at more than $2.3 billion, the Coral Triangle, like PNG, represents big money to many industries, including the multi-billion dollar tuna industry and the largely untapped natural gas industry. The marine aquarium industry is admittedly a much smaller player in terms of global trade, but it still has a significant impact on the Coral Triangle. As many as eighty percent of saltwater aquarium fishes originate from the Coral Triangle, with the vast majority coming from Indonesia and the Philippines, and this is potentially the biggest impediment to the SEASMART Program’s success in PNG.</div>
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“The unceasing demand for lower prices has effectively driven the trade in Indonesia and the Philippines to the unsustainable position they are presently in,” says Vosseler. A report published by the World Resources Institute estimates that eighty-eight percent of Southeast Asia’s reefs are threatened, and unsustainable fishing practices are the number one threat. While the food fish industry is having a far larger impact on the region’s reefs than the marine aquarium industry, there is no excuse for the marine aquarium industry’s long-standing relationship with destructive fishing practices such as cyanide use, he says. “It takes more skill and time to collect a fish with a net than cyanide.” <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="348" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Vosseler.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="font-size: smaller; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">David Vosseler, PNG SEASMART head, presents a diploma to a Papuan man who has graduated from fisher training.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Vosseler believes a fresh start for the trade in PNG is better than trying to reform a system that is, in many people’s estimations, already broken. “I think any country can do what we are doing. This is not rocket science, but it takes long-term commitment and support at all links of the chain. To make the radical changes necessary to create a truly sustainable industry in a place like Indonesia or the Philippines, more flexibility is required, at least in the earlier stages. Both these countries have strong built-in resistance to real change. The problems extend from the exporters and their buyers to the fishers themselves, most of whom don’t have effective resource rights and responsibilities to the areas where they live, nor any real power to manage these resources. Things are different in Papua New Guinea, and this is why SEASMART sees PNG as ground zero for the marine aquarium trade of the future.”</span></div>
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My time in PNG is coming to a close, and despite spending weeks looking at every aspect of the trade, travelling about the country, meeting fishers, diving on reefs, and eating a lot of really good food, I still have so many questions. Overall, I am cautiously optimistic about the SEASMART Program’s chances to accomplish a monumental feat and build a sustainable, equitable and profitable marine aquarium trade from the ground up in one of the most remote countries on the planet. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="right" alt="" height="276" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG%20Lightning%20Maroon%20Clownfish%20small.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="10" width="250" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />As I write from my desk back home in Laguna Beach, California, I am receiving emails from contacts in PNG about survey trips and initial collections in other provinces. New FMAs are being established in areas that will give fishers access to new marine aquarium species, some of which are endemic to PNG and have yet to be seen in the hobby. On my trips up to Los Angeles, I am seeing more boxes arrive on a more regular basis from Papua New Guinea through importers such as<a href="http://www.pacificaquafarms.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pacific Aqua Farms</strong></a> <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">(who brought in the Lightning Maroon Clownfish, above)</strong></em>, <a href="http://www.qualitymarine.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Quality Marine</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.seadwelling.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sea Dwelling Creatures</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.uwwe.com/" style="color: #005a8c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Underwater World</strong></a>, and others.</div>
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Beyond being cautiously optimistic, I am hopeful. I am hopeful not just about the SEASMART Program, but about the industry at large. As hobbyists, we have the ability to use our buying power to positively impact reef conservation and appropriate socio-economic development in developing island nations. We have the ability to show that this industry can truly be on the forefront of reef conservation and knowledge.</div>
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Every one of us with a saltwater aquarium in our home has the chance to introduce family and friends to the amazing, but often unseen, world of the tropical reef, where myriad colors flash through gin-clear water over an undersea forest of multihued coral sheltering a diversity of life found nowhere else on the Planet. We also have the chance to help people understand the challenges these ecosystems face. I am hopeful that we will, to use the cliché, do the right thing. For some of us, that will mean requesting PNG animals in the hopes that supporting a Program like SEASMART will have a transformative effect on the industry and, ultimately, will positively impact the people and resources upon which the industry relies.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> </div>
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<img alt="" src="http://reefbuilders.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/pomacentrus-quottufiquot-png-damselfish/pomacentrus-tufi-papua-new-guinea-damselfish-4.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The new damselfish captured by Seasmart fishermen in Papua New Guinea may have been discovered a little over a week ago but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a legal immigrant to American aquariums. Last week Sea Dwelling Creatures received the first batch of these PNG beauties and has already started distributing them to aquariums stores in the US. We acquired some specimens last week and now that they’ve settled into the quarantine tank, we can’t stress enough how beautiful these fish are. Granted our poor lighting and long distance travellers don’t yet look anything like <a href="http://reefbuilders.com/2010/06/22/tufi-damselfish-and-brilliant-cap-clownfish-from-papua-new-guinea-are-the-latest-reef-gems-revealed-by-seasmart/" style="color: #2951a7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the stunner </a>that we posted last week, but they’re coloring up fast.<a href="http://reefbuilders.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/pomacentrus-quottufiquot-png-damselfish/pomacentrus-tufi-papua-new-guinea-damselfish-5.jpg" style="color: #2951a7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright" height="161" src="http://reefbuilders.com/2010/06/28/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/pomacentrus-quottufiquot-png-damselfish/pomacentrus-tufi-papua-new-guinea-damselfish-5.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: right; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="322" /></a> Even better yet, we first feared thesewould be the type of <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pomacnetrus </em>or <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Stegastes</em>damselfish that starts out life with unbelievable colors but then becomes a dull adult. Thankfully, our small captive population shows the opposite pattern; the smallest fish are mostly greyish black with few blue markings and the larger the specimen, the more blue they are showing. Our largest resident Tufi damselfish is showing the tell tale thin blue stripe which lets us know at least we got the right fish. Continue past the break for more details and lots more pictures.</div>
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Our Tufi damslefish are between one and two inches long and they are already showing a healthy amount of aggression, typical of damselfish. The Tufi reminds us of both a showy damselfish like a Pavo but it has the body and stockyness of a princess damselfish. Our guess is that this fish will retain the higher body profile and will develop colors on par with a large showy <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pavo </em>damselfish without getting quite as large. After scouring the literature, both physical and digital, we cannot find any mention of a damselfish that matches this species and it is very likely still undescribed. We really hope that Seasmart gets some recognition in the naming of this fish, if it is indeed unknown taxonomically. With Seasamrt program still very early in it’s exploration of the PNG shoreline, we hope to see many more jewels like this in the future. Big thanks to Sea Dwelling Creatures for helping us to acquire some of these exciting new damselfish.</div>
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The Tufi Damsellfish is an unidentified species of damselfish which was recently discovered by fishermen working for the Seasmart Program in Papua New Guinea. The Tufi damselfish was collected from Tufi in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea by the same fishermen who also brought us the <a href="http://reefbuilders.com/tag/lightning-maroon-clownfish/" style="color: #2951a7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lightning Maroon Clownfish</a>. The PNG Tufi damselfish inhabits shallow to deep reefs, patch reefs and the fjords where it likes to stay close to tightly growing coral branches of birdnest and <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Anacropora</em> coral. The Tufi damselfish is believed to be a <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pomacentrus</em> species but other genera are not being ruled out and it is very possible that the Tufi damselfish is a yet undescribed species. Along the same line of novelty, <a href="http://www.seasmart.ecoez.com/" style="color: #2951a7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-20378" height="179" src="http://reefbuilders.com/files/2010/06/PNG-white-cap-clownfish-leucokranos-300x179.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="300" />Seasmart</a> is also catching small numbers of white bonnet clownfish, <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amphiprion leucokranos</em> which is very different from those from the Solomon Islands. SI white cap clowns are usually much more pink in body color but the PNG white cap have a distinct orange body color. The leucokranos clownfish from PNG are few and far between but we have gotten word that the first batch of Tufi damselfish are already on their way to marine livestock wholesalers in L.A. and Sea Dwelling Creatures, Quality Marine and Pacific Aqua Farms should hopefully be stocking the species soon.</div>
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nice. that damsel is really beautiful. Between the endemic orchids in their rainforests and the fish in their reefs, PNG has some incredible stuff going on.</div>
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The cap Clownfish…oh how I’ve missed my love.</div>
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That clown has def picked up more of the orange skunk coloring. I wonder how big it is.</div>
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Ive got one female and shes like yellowly brown, more like a blue stripe.</div>
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Awesome stuff coming from seasmart.</div>
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What I am more interested to know is if the white cap is found with chrysopteus + skunk parents as some literature said.</div>
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i just got four of these damsels today, a friend picked them up from SDC for me. they were calling them somthing else and no one knew how much they were apparently haha. but non the less, i got four and they do look great.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />-clay</div>
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Hey Clay how many did you get and how big are they? I just received mine this morning and of the 6 I have, the two larger ones are by far more colorful. Is that the case with your specimens?</div>
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PAPUA New Guinea will soon become a haven for fish canneries with four new tuna processing plants planning to operate here.<br />Overseas investors find PNG an attractive business destination because of the country’s good fishing ground, market access to the European Union and National Fisheries Authority (NFA) concessions.<br />One such company, Majestic Seafood, will be signing a project agreement with the government and the Morobe provincial government on Tuesday in Port Moresby to allow it to commence work on a tuna canning factory in Malahang, Lae.<br />A groundbreaking ceremony to mark the commencement of work on the factory will take place at Malahang industrial center in Lae the next day.<br />Majestic Seafood is a joint venture partnership between Frabelle Fishing Corp of Philippines, Century Canning Corp, also of the Philippines, and Thai Union Manufacturing Co of Thailand.<br />Frabelle already operates in PNG as Frabelle PNG Ltd, based at Milfordhaven in Lae.<br />With an initial investment of US$30 million (K85 million), the fish cannery will have a processing capacity of 350mt of tuna per day and is expected to create 6,000 new jobs.<br />The NFA board has given approval for another company, ZZDF owned by a Chinese company, Zho Shan Zheyeng Deep Sea Fishing, to build a tuna processing plant also based at Malahang.<br />Trans Pacific Journey Fishing is yet another company hoping to start an off-shore processing plant in PNG.<br />It is a joint venture company of the Fishing Corp and TSP Marine Industries, both from the Philippines.<br />It is also set to sign a statement of intent with the government soon.<br />Another company, Niugini Tuna, is looking at setting up a fish production plant in Madang.<br /> </div>
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PAPUA New Guinea will soon become a haven for fish canneries with four new tuna processing plants planning to operate here.<br />Overseas investors find PNG an attractive business destination because of the country’s good fishing ground, market access to the European Union and National Fisheries Authority (NFA) concessions.<br />One such company, Majestic Seafood, will be signing a project agreement with the government and the Morobe provincial government on Tuesday in Port Moresby to allow it to commence work on a tuna canning factory in Malahang, Lae.<br />A groundbreaking ceremony to mark the commencement of work on the factory will take place at Malahang industrial center in Lae the next day.<br />Majestic Seafood is a joint venture partnership between Frabelle Fishing Corp of Philippines, Century Canning Corp, also of the Philippines, and Thai Union Manufacturing Co of Thailand.<br />Frabelle already operates in PNG as Frabelle PNG Ltd, based at Milfordhaven in Lae.<br />With an initial investment of US$30 million (K85 million), the fish cannery will have a processing capacity of 350mt of tuna per day and is expected to create 6,000 new jobs.<br />The NFA board has given approval for another company, ZZDF owned by a Chinese company, Zho Shan Zheyeng Deep Sea Fishing, to build a tuna processing plant also based at Malahang.<br />Trans Pacific Journey Fishing is yet another company hoping to start an off-shore processing plant in PNG.<br />It is a joint venture company of the Fishing Corp and TSP Marine Industries, both from the Philippines.<br />It is also set to sign a statement of intent with the government soon.<br />Another company, Niugini Tuna, is looking at setting up a fish production plant in Madang.<br /> </div>
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PAPUA New Guinea will soon become a haven for fish canneries with four new tuna processing plants planning to operate here.<br />Overseas investors find PNG an attractive business destination because of the country’s good fishing ground, market access to the European Union and National Fisheries Authority (NFA) concessions.<br />One such company, Majestic Seafood, will be signing a project agreement with the government and the Morobe provincial government on Tuesday in Port Moresby to allow it to commence work on a tuna canning factory in Malahang, Lae.<br />A groundbreaking ceremony to mark the commencement of work on the factory will take place at Malahang industrial center in Lae the next day.<br />Majestic Seafood is a joint venture partnership between Frabelle Fishing Corp of Philippines, Century Canning Corp, also of the Philippines, and Thai Union Manufacturing Co of Thailand.<br />Frabelle already operates in PNG as Frabelle PNG Ltd, based at Milfordhaven in Lae.<br />With an initial investment of US$30 million (K85 million), the fish cannery will have a processing capacity of 350mt of tuna per day and is expected to create 6,000 new jobs.<br />The NFA board has given approval for another company, ZZDF owned by a Chinese company, Zho Shan Zheyeng Deep Sea Fishing, to build a tuna processing plant also based at Malahang.<br />Trans Pacific Journey Fishing is yet another company hoping to start an off-shore processing plant in PNG.<br />It is a joint venture company of the Fishing Corp and TSP Marine Industries, both from the Philippines.<br />It is also set to sign a statement of intent with the government soon.<br />Another company, Niugini Tuna, is looking at setting up a fish production plant in Madang.<br /> </div>
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AS the world celebrated the diversity of life on earth, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are calling on governments to make fundamental changes to economic planning to avoid the collapse of the world’s life support system.<br />On Saturday, the world marked the International Day for Biological Diversity, proclaimed by the United Nations in 1993 to “increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues”.<br />Biodiversity and healthy natural ecosystems underpin human well-being and the economy by providing a range of benefits or “services” such as clean air and water, protection from natural disasters and medicine and food. Experts estimate the global economic value of biodiversity to be as high as US$33 trillion (K96.6 trillion) per year.<br />“Governments rarely take the economic and social benefits of nature into account in their policies and activities,” Rolf Hogan, biodiversity manager at WWF International, said. “This leads to the destruction of natural ecosystems and the undermining of our future. It is reaching a crisis point.”<br />Simultaneously, the world’s governments have failed to meet the promise they made in 2002 to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, the international year of biodiversity.<br />Recent studies, including the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, show that massive further loss of biodiversity is becoming increasingly likely. Several “tipping points” are approaching, in which ecosystems shift to less productive states from which it may be impossible to recover, according to the studies.<br />In a statement delivered to a scientific meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity earlier last week, 24 international NGOs including WWF – representing civil society, conservation and indigenous people – told governments that they had failed because they did “not address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss”.<br />“Current economic and governance systems and policies promote the over-consumption of natural resources by some countries and segments of society,” the statement said. “This is driving the destruction of habitats and undermining the rights and livelihoods of millions of people who depend on them.<br />“We are at a turning point. Fundamental change is urgently required.<br />“The International Day for Biological Diversity should act as a reminder that heads of state need to heed this call by NGOs to make concrete commitments when they meet at the United Nations general assembly special session on biodiversity in September,” Hogan said.<br />“We cannot expect environmental ministries to take this on alone.<br />“Conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity must move from the political fringes and into the centre stage if we are to prevent a catastrophic loss of biodiversity.” –<strong> WWF</strong></div>
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THE big eye tuna specie is close to being over-fished unless countries of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) cut their fishing rate by 30%.<br />This is according to a ‘Status of stocks report’ (1/2008) on both purse seine fishery and long-line for the period 2004 to 2008 that was compiled by the secretariat of the Pacific community (SPC).<br />The status report was disclosed to the forum fisheries committee (FFC) of 17-member countries including PNG at its 74th meeting in Solomon Islands from May 11-14.<br />Sylvester Pokajam, managing director for National Fisheries Authority (NFA) who chaired the meeting, said it was during this meeting that scientists from SPC told the gathering of the status on fish stock especially the big eye tuna.<br />“On the big eye, the assessment is very, very bleak … all fishing is currently occurring, therefore, scientists are calling for a reduction in effort by 30% to save the big eye on current level.<br />“What they are saying is, if we continue to fish on current level the big eye stock will be depleted … so now they are calling for 30% effort cut on the fishing on big eye,” Pokajam said shortly after his return to the country.<br />“So, this is an area in which I want to send a message to PNG and its citizens on the status of this stock because many times we hear from non-governmental organisations, and other people within PNG that fish is being depleted or over-fished.<br />“So I want to ensure that people know that this is the current situation based on the stock assessment carried out by SPC,” Pokajam said.<br />He also discussed status report on other fish species.<br />According to the stock status, the South Pacific albacore was not being over-fished as it was being fished within its maximum sustainable yield annually of 98,000 metric tonnes.<br />Pokajam said the status of the yellow fin stock also revealed that it was not over-fished, and the skip jack stock was also not over-fished.<br />“The current status is sustainable for skip jack,” he said, adding that the maximum sustainable yield that could be harvested in the WCPO by the purse seine are two to three million metric tonnes on sustainable basis.<br /> </div>
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Fisherman’s Island emerges low and dark on the horizon ahead of our red fiberglass skiff. The roar of the outboard bleeds into the striking expanse of turquoise sea and tropical sky as ephemeral bursts of warm spray come over the gunwale. Iga Ware, the boatman, arcs the skiff around the contour of a strikingly green headland and sets course for the distant island.</div>
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A small cluster of houses along a strip of white sand comes into focus as Iga throttles back the outboard. The sound of the engine is at once replaced by the squeal of pigs, the laughter of children playing and the lap of the crystal clear water. Iga smiles broadly. This is his village, and he is proud that it was the first village to become part of the pioneering SEASMART Program. Soon he will also be proud that a fish from his home waters will capture the attention of marine aquarists around the world. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/Fishermans-Island-Skiff-small.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fisherman's Island, site of a new Fishery Management Area operated by PNG SEASMART with a goal of sustainability and providing work for native islanders.</strong></div>
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Often known for stories of cannibals, dense rainforests, and vicious jungle fighting during World War II, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the next frontier for marine life collection and home to PNG SEASMART, a government-sponsored program started in 2008. The idea was both simple and radical: starting from scratch,build a sustainable, community-based marine aquarium collection and mariculture industry that would benefit both the native fishers and the reefs. I am visiting the Fisherman’s Island Fishery Management Area (FMA) researching a future article for CORAL and discovering just how close this dream is to reality.</div>
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Komori Irimu, a SEASMART employee, ties our skiff to a mooring, as two boats of local fishers approach with their catches. Meme Purgatorio, SEASMART’s packing and screening supervisor, prepares to assess each animal collected and accept or reject it. In the 1980s, Meme was one of the first Filipinos trained in net collection. Animals may be rejected for a range of issues from health or anomalies to the simple fact that the animal was not ordered. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><img align="middle" alt="" height="357" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/Butterfly-Reject-Fishermans-Island.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" width="476" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rejecting a Copperband Butterfly for a minor imperfection; SEASMART inspectors examine every fish to meet high standards of quality and health.</strong></div>
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The most remarkable thing about this screening is the large number of reasonably good-looking animals rejected—even animals like blue tangs that are in high demand. A task that could take an hour takes four because the individual health of each animal is paramount. “If I accept any animal that is less than perfect,” Meme tells me, “our reputation suffers.” While the retail cost of marine aquarium animals from PNG is becoming more competitive, the landed cost of a PNG animal is still often higher because of higher freight charges. “Importers, retailers and hobbyists have to know our quality is second to none,” Meme says. Since all PNG animals are net-collected by SEASMART-trained fisher in less than five meters (16 feet) of water, there really is something to that.</div>
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While some animals are rejected because they are not ordered, one such animal—the so-called PNG Lightning Maroon Clownfish with extraordinary markings—is enthusiastically accepted by Meme at Fisherman’s Island. The excitement began aboard the skiff but quickly spread as more people saw and heard about the fish. “When the fish arrived at the facility,” says Mark Schreffler, SEASMART’s export facility manager, “I immediately knew what it was, since one other like it was collected on the same reef in 2008. It was difficult to express my enthusiasm, seeing such a super-cool, super-rare fish.” Pacific Aqua Farms (PAF), a Los Angeles-based importer that has been a frequent supporter of the SEASMART Program, purchased the fish. “We were happy to get this fish into PAF’s very capable hands, as we knew they would ensure that the fish made it to the right retailer and, ultimately, the right aquarist,” says Schreffler.</div>
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“This is the most exciting fish to have entered the North American trade in many years,” says Mark Martin, director of marine ornamental research at Blue Zoo Aquatics, who handled the retail sale of the fish. “We made the decision to get this fish to a renowned breeder,” says Martin regarding Blue Zoo’s choice to not simply sell to the highest bidder. While bids well in excess of $5,000 came in as soon as the fish landed in Los Angeles, the PNG Lightning Maroon Clownfish ultimately went to award-winning marine aquarium breeder Matt Pedersen for a preferential price.</div>
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“The quality of the fish I received is extremely high,” says Pedersen, who is attempting to breed the Lightning Maroon, presumed to be a male, with a normal Maroon female, from the same waters off Fisherman’s Island. Pedersen is the first to admit reproducing the remarkable pigmentation may be a long shot. “Disregarding the ‘lightning’ variation, the truth is I received exceptionally nice Maroon Clown broodstock with a known collecting location. This is what I’m looking for with all my broodstock, and that alone was impressive. Even if we never turn out a single Lightning Maroon, we will still be producing some fantastic F1 Papua New Guinea Maroon Clowns.”<img align="right" alt="" height="332" hspace="15" src="http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/sites/default/files/u7/PNG-Lightning-Maroon-Clownfish-small.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" vspace="15" width="300" /></div>
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The PNG Lightning Maroon Clownfish is not a “designer clownfish” or a new species. It is, quite simply, an aberrant wild-caught<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Premnas biaculeatus</em>. There is some debate about whether the pattern, or misbarring, is genetic or environmental. “I doubt that this Maroon clownfish is a mutant,” says Martin Moe, author of <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder</em>.</div>
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“The term mutant indicates a changed genetic basis for the misbarring, but most likely, in my opinion, a very unusual environmental or biological stimulus during the larval period created these patterns.”</div>
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Nonetheless Moe thinks the pattern may be reproducible. “I guess the best chance for setting such a trait in a strain of this species would be to breed it with other Maroons from the same general area where that predisposition might be present in the population and see what happens.”</div>
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Matt Wittenrich, marine biologist and author of <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Complete Illustrated Breeder’s Guide to Marine Aquarium Fishes</em>, is more optimistic about the possibilities of producing a captive-bred strain of Lightning Maroons. “This Maroon is an example of extreme polymorphism that almost certainly has a genetic component,” says Wittenrich. Whether the misbarring is genetic or environmental, Wittenrich agrees with Moe that breeding it with another Maroon clownfish from the same general area will have the best chances of producing a captive-bred lightning Maroon strain. “Whatever the case for the patterning,” says Wittenrich, “the PNG Lightning Maroon is remarkably similar to captive designer strains, and this fish will be the predecessor to tomorrow’s hot designer clownfish.”</div>
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While some of the most respected breeders in the hobby discuss the cause of the misbarring itself, Pedersen has had to deal with the day-in and day-out husbandry of two wild-caught Maroon clownfishes. Wild-caught clownfishes are renowned for not shipping well and developing parasitic outbreaks due to stress— Maroon Clownfish especially so.</div>
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Unfortunately, despite how great these two fishes looked upon arrival in Los Angeles, the “normal” Maroon Clownfish—the female—subsequently gave Pedersen a real run for his money and did not survive, despite treatments that included hyposalinity, Formalin dosing, baths, and frequent water changes. A replacement female from the same area where the Lightning Maroon male was caught is on its way to Pederse3n. “It has been a thrilling but terrifying experience,” says Pedersen, who refers to this challenge as The Lightning Project. “I’m grateful for the steadfast support of many hobbyists and project advisers.”</div>
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Back in the States, after spending the better part of a month in Papua New Guinea, I am tracking, along with other hobbyists, The Lightning Project intently. I remember Iga’s broad smile and the friendliness of the fishers I met at Fisherman’s Island. Like Iga, I am pleased that this little clownfish has served as an excellent ambassador for Papua New Guinea and SEASMART. While I am excited to follow the story of this one fish, I am even more excited to see how PNG will shape the future of a sustainable and robust marine aquarium trade. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">—Ret Talbot</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> </div>
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PNG is ill-prepared for the impact of liquefied natural gas (LNG).<br />So far, we have watched the progress from gas agreement in May 2008 to financial closure on March 11 with little more than fascination.<br />We have heard the talking-up of PNG LNG, about the enormous wealth creation and its potential to change our fortunes but thought little of how it might impact us individually or as a community. Partly, this has been because there has been little to work on. Nobody has given us any clue on the full cost and benefit of this project.<br />The blame for this must be placed squarely at the doorstep of the executive Government and on the steps of Parliament House.<br />While there has been a ministerial economic committee formed for the express purpose of the LNG project, its sole purpose, so it would seem, up to now has been to speed up the approval of the project. Little has been done by way of preparing the nation for the effect which will have a tsunami-like consequence upon PNG’s fragile social scene and its small and open economy.<br />So much has been said about the K60-odd billion that the project might bring into the country but so little is said about where this money is going to be spent or what kind of impact such a landslide of money will have upon PNG.<br />So much money is not necessarily a good thing. As we have seen since the advent of the Bougainville copper agreement in 1974, and every other copper, gold and oil agreement since, almost all of the billions from those projects seem to have vaporised into thin air.<br />Australia has spent nearly K20 billion since Independence in budget support and, today, there is nothing to show for those billions.<br />PNG collected windfall money from good commodity prices of some K6 billion in the last six years.<br />This money has disappeared overnight with the Highlands Highway still in dire need of maintenance, with hospitals still running short of essential medicine, with nurses, doctors and other civil servants still waiting for their awards and with the rural outback still in need of essential services.<br />So, a lot of money is not a good thing if the Government does not have a plan for where the money ought to be spent.<br />ExxonMobil is the world’s No.1 in the oil and gas business. It will drive this project in as responsible a manner as is commensurate with its reputation.<br />But the company cannot be expected to fulfil the statutory and constitutional functions of the State. That the State alone must fulfil and such a plan we do not see at present as the project progresses to construction phase.<br />The executive Government seems to have conducted itself more as a project beneficiary than as the neutral state negotiating on behalf of the people with the project developers. In that sense, it has compromised itself.<br />It now falls to Parliament to conduct a study of the full import and impact of the LNG project for and on behalf of the people.<br />Relevant parliamentary committees relating to the economy, security and infrastructure should conduct a joint meeting and propose a joint inquiry which will look at how the project will affect the entire nation across the entire social, economic and infrastructure sectors.<br />LNG will affect this country in a very substantial way, whether we like it or not.<br />As we have heard in the Asian inquiry, there are 14,000 applications for work permits alone from the LNG and only nine persons to process them. Word is now that when the project goes into full construction stage, there will be a need to process 50,000 visas and as we have also learnt there is little capacity in Immigrations to process that kind of workload.<br />The economic costs will also increase because the State will need to match or surpass LNG salaries to keep its workforce. And that is only one area of concern.<br />In the absence of any cost-benefit analysis by the National Government, this country does not know the full import of the LNG project. This is not an academic exercise. It is a crucial task that Parliament must establish immediately with an urgent inquiry with sufficient funding for the engagement of professional socio-economic analysts to study the LNG’s impact on every industry, every sector and every region of the country.<br /> </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This magnificent
maroon clownfish <i>Premnas biaculeatus </i>was recently caught in Papua New
Guinea by famed fish collector Steve Robinson. As far as we know this
individual is one of a kind but perhaps with more collections other similar
specimens may be discovered. If this is a sign of things to come then it seems
like Papua New Guinea will be a treasure trove of new morphs and species. The
photo was taken topside in PNG right after collection so please excuse the
blurry-cam. This specimen is as sensational as the original picasso true
percula clownfish which was imported several years back. Perhaps this amazing
maroon clownfish will be the progenitor of a domestic strain of “Lightning
Maroon Clowns”. You heard it here first!</span></div>
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master of rare fish colelcting has done it again. We just received this picture
taken by Steve Robinson of a mostly xanthic morph of the bicolor angelfish,
Centropyge bicolor, from the hotbed of fish biodiversity of Papua New Guinea.
Other unusual morphs of coral beauties and bicolor angelfish similar to this
one have been found before and there is no certainty that this specimen will
keep it’s color. Gotta love the gorgeous red spotting in the white part of the
body.</span></div>
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[http://www.reefbuilders.com/2007/04/05/tunze-nano-6055-delayed-yet-again/]
Ecotech Marine adds video FAQ to
website[http://www.reefbuilders.com/2008/11/24/ecotech-marine-adds-video-faq-to-website/]
Current’s Solana XL 60, and Solana XL 67 aquarium lines
[http://www.reefbuilders.com/2009/03/10/currents-solana-xl-60-solana-xl-67-aquarium-lines/]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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