Title Page
Contents
Abstract 7
Chapter I. Introduction 9
Chapter II. Overview of Solomon Islands and Its Fishery 13
1.0. Country Profile 13
1.1. Fisheries Management 16
1.2. Tuna Management and Development 17
2.0. Status Quo of the Offshore Fishery in Solomon Islands 19
2.1. Pole and Line Fishery and its associated baitfish fishery 20
2.2. Longline fishery 22
2.3. The purse seine fishery 23
2.4. Onshore Facilities 24
Chapter III. Methodology and Materials 25
3.0. Coverage of study area 26
3.1. The Surplus Production Models 28
3.2. Catch and Effort Data 32
Chapter IV. Results and Discussion 35
Chapter V. Policy Implication and Conclusion 42
References 48
Table 1. The three domestic Tuna Fishing Fleets of Solomon Islands and their targeted... 33
Table 2. Number of active vessels (aggregated for both purse seine and pole-and-line) with... 34
Table 3. Estimated values of Parameters for Schaefer, Schnute, Walters&Hilborn, Fox... 37
Figure 1. Fisheries contribution to the National GDP export earnings in comparison with... 10
Figure 2. Map of Solomon Islands Exclusive Economy Zone 14
Figure 3. Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) Organisational Structure 17
Figure 4. Solomon Islands Main Group Archipelago (MGA). 27
Figure 5. Test for the detection of autocorrelation for the CYP model. 38
Figure 6. Sustainable Yield Curve, MSY and EMSY for the targeted tuna species... 39