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Dr Nicholas Paul
Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University
ACIAR Project Leader: Diversification of Seaweed Industries in Pacific Island Countries
ACIAR Seaweed Projects in the Pacific: Feasible, Sustainable and Commercial
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ACIAR Fisheries Projects
ACIAR Fisheries Program Manager – Dr Chris Barlow
• ACIAR Fisheries projects are developed based on priorities identified by partner countries.
• Currently ACIAR funds around $3 million per year for Pacific Fisheries projects.
• This is added to by in-kind from partner agencies, Australia and overseas.
• Project design: ACIAR funds research agencies (universities, SPC, WorldFish) to work in conjunction with agencies (Fisheries Depts, NGOs, USP) in Pacific countries.
• Research covers coastal fisheries and aquaculture
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Current ACIAR Fisheries Projects
• Pearl industry development, health management & livelihoods, Fiji, PNG, Tonga (3 related projects)
• Improving technologies for inland aquaculture in PNG• Support for mariculture development in PNG (2 overlapping projects)• Sustainable management of sport fisheries for communities in PNG• Sustainable management of the shark resources of PNG: socioeconomic &
biological characteristics of the fishery• Improving community-based aquaculture in Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa & Vanuatu• Improving community-based fisheries management in Solomon Islands,
Vanuatu & Kiribati (2 projects)• Evaluating the impacts of improving postharvest processing of sea cucumbers
in Fiji, Tonga & Kiribati• Developing inland aquaculture in Solomon Islands• Building research & project management skills in fisheries staff in PNG• Diversification of seaweed industries in Fiji, Kiribati & Samoa
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ACIAR Seaweed project
Diversification of Seaweed Industries in Pacific Island Countries
October 2013 – September 2017
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Current ACIAR Seaweed Activities
Aim
The overall aim of this project is to provide the technological basis for diversification and revitalisation of seaweed industries in Pacific Island Countries.
Objectives
1. improve production levels and post-harvest quality of Kappaphycus in Fiji and Kiribati;
2. consolidate production and post-harvest strategies for sea grapes in Samoa and Fiji;
3. assess opportunities for new seaweed bioproducts in PICs.
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Fiji
Tambalang variety
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Fiji
Sacol variety
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Fiji
New “maumere” variety
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Fiji
Gau
Naweni
Lakeba
Labasa
Savusavu
Dama Yageta
Nadi
Suva
Sawakasa
Kumi
Gau
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Fiji
Environmental monitoring of
production sites
Post-harvest quality
assessment
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Samoa
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Samoa
Production trials
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Samoa
Vaisala
Asaga
Savaia
Faleavu
Extension work with villages on Upolu and Savai’i
Manono tai
Salelologa
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Samoa
Extension work with villages on Upolu and Savai’i
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Samoa
Extension work with Vaisala village, Savai’i
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Samoa
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Samoa
New sea grape seedstock facility at existing hatchery
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Kiribati
Tarawa – South Tarawa production sites
New seaweed bioproducts
MFMRD
Sth Tarawa
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KiribatiMFMRD
Blooms and beach wrack on South Tarawa
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Kiribati
Compost: Seaweed – Leaf Mix. Start
MFMRD
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Kiribati
Compost: Seaweed – Leaf Mix. Turn and tend
MFMRD
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Kiribati
Compost: Seaweed – Leaf Mix. Finish (3 months)
MFMRD
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Kiribati
Pot trials and tests of seaweed compost ratios
MFMRD
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Kiribati
Production trials of green seaweed in the lagoon (high nutrients)
MFMRD
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Kiribati
New seaweed bioproducts
MFMRD
Sth Tarawa
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Kiribati
A single production area of 5 ha (each red line) can produce 100 tonnes of seaweed per
annum, removing 2 tonnes of nitrogen (treating >1000ML of coastal water)
New seaweed bioproducts
MFMRD
Sth Tarawa
Abarao trials
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Conclusion
Feasible Sustainable Commercial✔ ✔ ✔
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Acknowledgements
ACIAR Fisheries Program
Fiji - Ministry of Fisheries & Forests(Fisheries Department - Jope Kavoa, Richard Veeran)
Fiji - University of the South Pacific(Institute of Marine Resources, Colin Shelley, Shirleen Bala, Cherie Morris)
Samoa – Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries(Sapeti Tiitii and Inshore Fisheries Team)
Kiribati – Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources Development(Karibanang Aram and Aquaculture team)
Secretariat of the Pacific Community(Tim Pickering and Ruth Garcia-Gomez)