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Fishing competition – Moorea 11/25/2023
« Promoting sustainable fishing on the island of Moorea »
A lagoon fishing competition, organized by the local NGO Afareaitu Rava’ai, was hold on Saturday 11/25/2023 in Moorea. Fifteen fishers from the Afareaitu’s district participated to this day: a good opportunity to promote sustainable fishing. The Rāhui Center actively supported this event. Our team collected data (fish size, gonads, otoliths, etc.) on several commercial fish species. The final purpose of this data collection is to determine, for these species, life history parameters (maturity size, growth rate, maximum size, etc.) in order to co-build, with fishers, suitable and efficient management measures. A way to preserve coral-reef biodiversity and fishers revenues.
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