@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00011203,
 author = {QUINN, Norman J. and KOJIS, Barbara L.},
 journal = {南方海域調査研究報告=Occasional Papers},
 month = {2016-10-31},
 note = {The subsistence fishing activities of the Labu Butu village south of the Markham
River, Morobe Province were documented by recording the catches of 12,399 fishing
trips for 26 months, representing over 82,000 hours of fishing. From these observations the annual catch was estimated at 15~34 tonnes of prawns, 41~75 tonnes of finfish and 10~15 tonnes of larval fish. The larval fish fishery had the highest catch rate at 5kg/hr/person versus 0.7kg/hr/person for finfish. Much of the lime used in the chewing betel nut is manufactured by Labu women from shells collected in the Labu estuary. Annual production was estimated at over 30 tonnes.
The Labu fishery uses a variety of equipment that are generally not species or size
selective, in several locations to fish a diverse tropical fish assemblage. This is probably an important factor in maintaining a high catch per effort. This balanced approach to exploitation serves as an equilibrium between subsistence fishermen and their resource.
Market incentives which influcence catch size or composition should be preceded by research on fish community structures and biological productivity of the system.
Marine resource development and management schemes in development countries
need to be designed with consultation with local users of the resource and with an
understanding of the biology of the resource. Tackling resource management problems at the village level is encouraged. Collaborating with villagers provides oppotunities and difficulties quite unlike those encountered in more conventional environmental studies.
Suggestions are given of how working with artisanal fishermen can yield otherwise
inaccessible insights into such matters as: unappreciated resource areas and their vunerability to damage through coastal development, important aspects of the biology of target species, relevant local oceanographic phenomena, the local cultural palatability of proposed management schemes and local traditional conservation practices of continuing value.
Joint research efforts increase the knowledge available about the local conditions and help the development and management of Papua New Guinea resources.},
 pages = {24--30},
 title = {Coastal Fisheries in Papua New Guinea},
 volume = {13},
 year = {}
}