SHARKS and RAYS of PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Comission
A Milestone Report for Department of the Environment (November 2017)
Regional data on marine pollution: observer pollution events. Marine pollution from ships and waste incidents per country in the Pacific region. Waste composition includes: general garbage, plastics, old fishing gears, metals, waste oils, chemicals.
Papua New Guinea is committed to the establishment of a network of marine protected areas to fulfil national and international commitments. In order to assist this, the conservation priority areas analysis identified a range of areas of high conservation interest in the PNG marine environment, based on the principles of comprehensiveness, adequacy, representation and resilience (CARR). The analysis collated available national-scale data on biodiversity features and biodiversity surrogates.
Rapid Marine Biodiversity Assessment of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea—Survey II (2000)
Biodiversity Conservation of terrestrial and amrine ecosystems
Bismarck Sea rapid assessment
Shipping traffic on marine mammals
MARINE BIODIVERSITY SURVEY FINAL REPORT, 2018
Regional data on marine pollution. Observe pollution events.
This review documents existing legislation and policies as well as RMI's participation in international/regional agreements and conventions relevant to marine turtles.
Tuna fisheries assessment reports provide current information on the tuna fisheries of the western and
central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) and the fish stocks (mainly tuna) that are impacted by them. The
information provided in this report is summary in nature, but a list of references (mostly accessible via
the internet) is included for those seeking further details. This report is a smart PDF so if you click on a
reference within the document it will take you to the figure/section; to return to the page you were on,
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a conservation NGO working globallly and in PNG
The Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources published these statistics on marine exports from 2011-2015.