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| Resource Assessment & Management |
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Resource Assessment and Management is the process of evaluation that pro-vides vital information on the abun-dance of marine aquarium resources and the health of their marine habitat ecosystems. Carrying out resource assessments, the RAM Team collects baseline data for fish, corals, inverte-brates and substrate types to ensure a sound scientific assessment and moni-toring of Fishery Management Area’s (FMA) and their marine life.
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A RAM Survey is carried out to assess the status and condition of reefs and fish stock in the Fishery Management Area. RAM and the SEASMART program also evaluate the effectiveness of management by monitoring coral reefs and populations of exploited organisms and 'control areas' to determine if there are effects on reef health or tar-get species' populations from aquarium fishing, and if these effects are ecologically significant compared to natural spatial and temporal varia-tion.
urvey data report is produced at the end of each assessment to sum-marize the status of marine aquarium organism stock and associated coral reef ecosystem of the FMA.
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Ensure a sound scientific assess-ment and monitoring of coral reefs and marine aquarium stock in Papua New Guinea.
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Determine the total stock abun-dance of each Fishery Manage-ment Area (FMA) and produce Total Allowable Catch (TAC) figures for each FMA. |
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Compile and set up a data bank-ing system for the marine aquarium species that best suits the PNG environment. |
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RAM Team is Composed of trained and experienced marine biologists in their own field of expertise ranging from fish, coral (soft/hard), substrates, invertebrate, sea cucumber, and food fish. |
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Coral reef surveys and assessment of target FMA’s
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Compilation of economic and base line resource profile for further analysis of the resource of Papua New Guinea. |
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Evaluating the effectiveness of management strategies by moni-toring coral reefs and population of exploited marine organ-isms. |
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Determining if there are significant effects on reef health and target species population from aquarium fishing and determine if these are ecologically significant compared to natural spatial and temporal variation. |
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Recording the numbers and sizes and abundance of marine aquarium species using belt transect survey techniques. |
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Establishing fishery replenishment areas (FRA) to ensure the sustainability of the marine aquarium fishery.
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AND make a difference.. |
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Species Distribution Maps |
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