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The main goal of the project is to improve the planning and management of coastal resources in Fiji using an integrated approach, with the Coral Coast of Nadroga Province serving as a pilot site. Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) is a process that involves the integration (working together) between sectors at both the local and national levels and also between different levels of government. ICM helps solve problems. This initiative worked at both levels. At the local level the Coral Coast site serves to demonstrate and test strategies such as the development of an ICM action strategy.At the national level a National ICM Committee was established to advise and learn from the Coral Coast demonstration site and to act as a forum for the discussion of priority coastal issues. Building capacity to improve coastal planning within selected provincial and government entities was also a priority.

The Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network is a group of practitioners involved in various community-based marine conservation projects around the globe who have joined together to learn how to improve their results. The LMMA Network is a "learning network,' meaning that participating project teams use a common strategy and evaluation process to learn about the conditions under which using an LMMA approach works, doesn't work, and why. We believe that working together will allow us to learn collectively, improve our marine management activities, and increase the impact of our conservation efforts.

Information currently available from Solomon Islands on blacklip pearl oysters(Pinctada margaritifera) and their potential culture comes from three main sources; records of past exploitation, occasional resource surveys that have included blacklip pearl oysters; and research on culture of blacklip oysters in Solomon Islands. Statistics on past exploitation are limited to export tonnage and value collected by the Statistics Unit of the Ministry for Fisheries and Marine Resources. Spatially resolved data from within the country, by island or by island group are not available. However, since export appears to have been through a single point. Honiara, these records are likely to reasonably accurately reflect the tonnage exported. Of the various resource assessments that have been undertaken the only recent, nationwide one that we are aware of is that coordinated and funded by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in May- June 2004. All of the information on pearl farming in Solomon Islands is derived from a research project carried out in the period 1993-1997 by the WorldFish Center (previously the International Center for Living Aquatic Resource Management - ICLARM) in collaboration with MFMR and funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). After 1997. through to the present. WorldFish continued research on blacklip pearl production, supported through its own funds, albeit at a reduced level.

From Closer external and internal examinations,it is therefore conclude that the fish sampled was not caught from spear,gillnet or line and hook but maybe resulted from other means which can inflicted less external body damages such as 'ava niukini','bleach' or 'dynamite'(if postioned further away from the center of the blast).However,it was scientifically proved that fish at a distance of few hundred metres from the center of the blast can be killed by the impact of the underwater travel sound.

Guam, the southernmost island of the Mariana Islands, is likely to encounter a significant typhoon every seven years. During the last thirty years two typhoons have passed directly over Guam—Karen (11 November 1962) and Pamela (21 May 1976). Pamela had maximum winds of 120 kt (145 estimated), minimum sea level pressure of 930 mb, a speed of movement at 7 kt, a diameter of 20 nautical miles, and 33 inches of rainfall during the typhoon passage. The typhoon had its greatest effect along the shoreline where erosion removed many bands of beach deposits and where shoreline vegetation was defoliated. Relatively little damage occurred along the adjacent reef-flat platforms and reef margins. Some unconsolidated materials were shifted. The growing tips of some foliaceous corals fragmented. On the reef front a number of corals were overturned by the storm waves.

The Rotuma Coral Reef Conservation Project (RCRCP) trip III to carry out the annual survey of Rotuma's coral reef was during from the month of November from the 14th to 22nd in 2006. The diving survey group consisted of four volunteer divers from mainland Fiji and one volunteer diver who lives on the island. All five divers volunteered their time to assist LajeRotuma Initiative (LRI) in its RCRCP activity. Three of the Suva-based divers are employees of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the fourth, a graduate student under the Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific (CRISP) programme, from the School of Marine Studies (SMS) at the University of the South Pacific (USP).

The goal of this Green Snail and Trochus Protection Campaign is to educate the public about these new possible commercial resources and most importantly to encourage a refrain from fishing and harvesting these species until they can grow to a sustainable abundance.

This preliminary report summarize the results of a mission undertaken by Francois Martel, CI Executive Director for the Pacific Islands to Palau to participate in the Micronesia Challenge Strategic Planning Workshop held in Palau from 4 to 7 December 2006 and follow up work with Palauan stakeholders to target well the proposed support form the CRISP. The purpose of this project is to investigate and outline for AFD's consideration support from the CRISP to Palau for improving coral reef conservation and management as part of CRISP Component 1 MPAs and Watersheds

The sites at Sandfly in Gela, Central Province were established over a three year period (three sites in 2004, two sites in 2005 and one site in 2007) after a series of workshops on good governance and marine resource awareness raising under the coral gardens project which was implemented by SIDT, ECANSI and Fisheries Division of the Solomon Islands government with funding from SPREP through FSPI. The sites are all community owned although two of them are owned and operated by resort owners who are indigenous residents of Gela

Helen Reef in the Southwest Islands of Palau is the one of the greatest marine assets of the Hatohobei (Tobi) People and of the Republic of Palau. Helen Reef is known as one of the most biologically diverse coral reef atolls in the Pacific and historically one of the most biologically abundant reefs in Palau,including acclaimed populations of plentiful marine resources including, trochus, turtles, sea cucumbers, seabirds, and many large reef fish. Reflected in its traditional Hatohobeian name Hotsarihie, which signifies “Reef of the Giant Clam”, Helen Reef is perhaps most famous in the region for its once ubiquitous giant clams, and unfortunately the unchecked foreign poaching that has occurred there over the past decades. The richness and abundance of the atoll’s resources are factors of its location, being remote from human populations and bordering the biodiverse marine eco-regions of Melanesia and SE Asia. The cumulative characteristics of the atoll have attracted many users over time including subsistence fishers from Hatohobei and neighboring islands, sea-faring traders, local businesses interests, and foreign commercial resource operations. The remoteness of Helen Reef which contributes to its historical levels of resource abundance is also a underlying cause for recent resource declines, as the atoll is usually uninhabited and has been notably vulnerable to poaching for the last half century by foreign fishermen from Asian countries