Re-opening of the sea cucumber fishery in Papua New Guinea: A case study from the Tigak Islands in the New Ireland Province

On 1 April 2017, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) nationwide moratorium on sea cucumber fishing and the beche-de-mer trade was lifted seven-and-a-half years after it was introduced. The National Fisheries Authority (NFA) had revised the National Bêche-de-mer Fishery Management Plan (the Plan) prior to the fishery opening and allocated provincial total allowable catch (TAC) quotas based on estimated fishable stocks of sea cucumber in each maritime province. This article presents the results of a study on the sea cucumber fishery (harvest of live animals, processing and selling of beche-de-mer) from three island communities in the Tigak Islands of the New Ireland Province (NIP). Almost 35,000 sea cucumbers that belong to 21 species were recorded from 10 days of catch monitoring.

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