NIPG Partnership Program Enterprise Development Focusing on NIP SMEs
NEW IRELAND PROVINCE Developing Rural Community Business Enterprises
Deep-water snapper landings (kg) by RCFDP vessels at ASL by month: October 2004–July 2005 (Source: Kinch, 2005) ssel 1 Vessel 2 Vessel 3 Vessel 4 Vessel 5 Vessel 6 Vessel 7 Total 327.0 282.0 423.0 395.0 1427.0 304.0 612.0 748.0 807.0 2471.0 576.4 249.4 696.9 1269.2 2791.9 119.0 398.2 28.0 95.4 640.6 203.6 267.0 807.5 95.2 1373.3 87.0 273.0 922.6 1282.6 579.0 930.5 642.5 2152.0 557.2 1037.5 687.0 40.0 2321.7 177.3 333.0 89.0 221.0 674.8 173.5 1668.6 683.0 644.0 25.0 261.0 1011.0 140.0 563.0 3327.0 2947.5 4489.1 114.0 482.0 6279.7 313.5 4829.9 19,455.7
ivate fishing companies involved in the fishing for deepwater red selves as well purchasing from other fishermen. Altogether they make an ding of 850 kg per month (Kinch, 2005).
2: Catches from the EU RCFDP dories being sorted at the ASL plant
scale, Kavieng fishermen are involved in the fishery. Fishing is not full time but nearly always at the subsistent level driven by demand, ed cash the fishermen go out to fish the more valuable deepwater and es and sell to supplement their income. There are only a few deepwater ainly from Emirau Island living in Kavieng) who fish for income on a
ishing however is being developed gradually with better pricing and the f a market that consistently buys deep-water fish. A number of trainings r fishing, as well as post-harvest training carried out by NFC with m the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has further o the development of the fishery. Over 50 people have been trained Chapman, 2001), although not all of them are involved in deep-sea s stage. 5
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