The Regional Maritime Legal Advisor, Captain Dr. Peter Heathcote was in Samoa to assist the Ministry of Works. Transport and Infrastructure, the Samoa Shipping Corporation (SSC) and the Samoa Ports Authority (SPA) implement the recent amendments to the SOLAS Convention dealing with Maritime Security and the new International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) Code. During this short visit, an enormous amount of work was accomplished as documented in this brief.
The 2009 tsunami waves that swept through parts of the Samoa Islands brought a lot of marine life with them, portions of which were stranded on land when the waves subsided. In addition to the reef fishes of varying sizes, marine turtles, a few sharks and dolphins were also stranded.
This report focuses on marine turtles and attempts to give an account on the number and fate of marine turtles that were stranded on land after the tsunami waves.
Environment related legislation review of Samoa.
**Please submit new information or corrections as the reviews will be updated annually.**
This dataset hosts the published NEMs of Tuvalu;
Protected areas of Palau. Data sourced from: IUCN and UNEP-WCMC (2018), The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [On-line], [July 2018]. Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.
Data on the recovery of Palau's Coral Reefs
The Nature Conservancy’s Mapping Ocean Wealth Project: Modelling and mapping fishing pressure the current and potential standing stock of coral-reef fishes in five jurisdictions of Micronesia
Data on Reef Fish Recovery in countries and information is also useful for Palau's Reef Fish Biomass
Data on Palau's Reef Fish including information extracted from researches on reef fish in micronesia
Data on Fisheries in the Economies of Pacific Island Countries and Territories. Information useful for Palau's Fisheries
Data on Creel survey and demographic assessments of coastal finfish fisheries of southern Palau
Data on Vulnerability of oceanic fisheries in the tropical Pacific to climate change
Data on Marine Environments of Palau including published research on marine animals
Data on the Population Status of Marine Turtles in the pacific ocean. Information is useful also for Palau's marine turtles
Data on Palau's introduced marine species and impacts.
Data on impacts of human activities on Palau's Coral Reef
Data on the status of Palau's Sea Cucumbers
Data on Palau's mangroves including mangrove-fringed estuaries
Data on Palau's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) including information on Ecological conditions of coral-reef and seagrass for marine protected areas in Palau