Development of community-based mariculture of sandfish, Holothuria scabra, in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

Hair, Catherine Ann (2020) Development of community-based mariculture of sandfish, Holothuria scabra, in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

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Abstract

Cathy Hair investigated factors affecting development of a mariculture livelihood based on the high-value sea cucumber, sandfish, in Papua New Guinea. She found that community-based mariculture was technically and economically feasible but that significant socio-economic challenges exist. This study underpins continuing efforts to assist remote coastal communities in Papua New Guinea.

Item ID: 65120
Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Keywords: beche-de-mer, biophysical variables, burying behavior, cultural barriers, holothuria scabra, juvenile growth, livelihoods, management, mariculture, Melanesia, ocean culture, overfishing, predator exclusion, principal components analysis, recovery rate, sea cucumber, sea pens, socio-economic, survival
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Copyright Information: Copyright © 2020 Catherine Ann Hair.
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Six publications arising from this thesis are stored in ResearchOnline@JCU, at the time of processing. Please see the Related URLs. The publications are:

Chapter 1: Hair, Cathy, Foale, Simon, Kinch, Jeff, Yaman, Luanah, and Southgate, Paul C. (2016) Beyond boom, bust and ban: the sandfish (Holothuria scabra) fishery in the Tigak Islands, Papua New Guinea. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 5. pp. 69-79.

Chapter 2: Hair, Cathy, Foale, Simon, Kinch, Jeff, Frijlink, Sven, Lindsay, Daniel, and Southgate, Paul C. (2019) Socioeconomic impacts of a sea cucumber fishery in Papua New Guinea: is there an opportunity for mariculture? Ocean & Coastal Management, 179. 104826.

Chapter 3: Hair, Cathy, Mills, David J., McIntyre, Rowan, and Southgate, Paul C. (2016) Optimising methods for community-based sea cucumber ranching: experimental releases of cultured juvenile Holothuria scabra into seagrass meadows in Papua New Guinea. Aquaculture Reports, 3. pp. 198-208.

Chapter 5: Hair, Cathy, Militz, Thane, Daniels, Nicholas, and Southgate, Paul C. (2020) Comparison of survival, growth and burying behavior of cultured and wild sandfish (Holothuria scabra) juveniles: implications for ocean mariculture. Aquaculture, 526. 735355.

Chapter 6: Hair, Cathy A., Ram, Ravinesh, and Southgate, Paul C. (2018) Is there a difference between bêche-de-mer processed from ocean-cultured and wild-harvested sandfish (Holothuria scabra)? Aquaculture, 483. pp. 63-68.

Chapter 7: Hair, Cathy, Foale, Simon, Daniels, Nicholas, Minimulu, Peter, Aini, John, and Southgate, Paul C. (2020) Social and economic challenges to community-based sea cucumber mariculture development in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Marine Policy, 117. 103940.

Date Deposited: 23 Nov 2020 02:00
FoR Codes: 05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0502 Environmental Science and Management > 050209 Natural Resource Management @ 34%
07 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES > 0704 Fisheries Sciences > 070401 Aquaculture @ 33%
16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1699 Other Studies in Human Society > 169905 Studies of Pacific Peoples Societies @ 33%
SEO Codes: 83 ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 8302 Fisheries - Wild Caught > 830299 Fisheries- Wild Caught not elsewhere classified @ 33%
83 ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND ANIMAL PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 8301 Fisheries - Aquaculture > 830199 Fisheries - Aquaculture not elsewhere classified @ 34%
95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9599 Other Cultural Understanding > 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified @ 33%
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