Fisheries in the Pacific

The challenge of sustainability for Pacific Island village fisheries, a historical perspective
fishing which is intensive or prolonged over time, such deepwater MPAs should be
established to secure the future of these fisheries. As for nearshore FADs and artificial
reefs, these are much less expensive than deeply moored FADs, which seem
to have a limited future given their high purchase and maintenance costs. Their
deployment in sedimentary zones should increase the fish biomass and reinforce the
sustainability of nearshore fisheries.
Lastly, this brief panorama of the recent history of Pacific Island village fisheries
shows that the sustainability of this fishery cannot be achieved if the focus is limited
to a geographic dimension the national level or the local level or a sectoral view
of the fishing system. Regardless of the geographic dimension (local or national) in
which one positions oneself, one cannot address the production subsystem if one
does not have a clear picture of the management subsystem, and one cannot address
the management subsystem without a clear understanding of the production
subsystem and the fisheries product chain and trade subsystem. The sustainability of
Pacific Island village fisheries therefore must be organized at the level of each of the
three subsystems forming the village fisheries system (fig. 1) and at each of the
geographic dimensions.
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