Comanaging small-scale sea cucumber fisheries in New Caledonia and Vanuatu using stock biomass estimates to set spatial catch quotas

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 367-379

  Leopold M ^a,b   Cornuet, N ^c   Andrefouet S ^a   Moenteapo, Z ^c   Duvauchelle, C ^a   Raubani, J ^b   Ham, J ^b   Dumas, P ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b Fisheries Department of Vanuatu   (Vanuatu)

^c Fisheries Department of the Northern Province   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

comanagement procedure; fishers' organization; habitat mapping; New Caledonia; precautionary approach; sea cucumber; small scale fisheries; stock biomass assessment; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COPYRIGHTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BIOMASS ASSESSMENT; CO-MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MAPPING; NEW CALEDONIA; PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH; SEA CUCUMBER; SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES; VANUATU;

FISHERIES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIOMASS; CATCH STATISTICS; COMANAGEMENT; ECHINODERM FISHERY; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY POLICY; FISHING EFFORT; HABITAT QUALITY; MULTISPECIES FISHERY; QUOTA SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; UPSCALING;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; VANUATU; PACIFIC ISLANDS;

HOLOTHUROIDEA;

EID: 84878400681     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S037689291300009X     Document Type: Article

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