by The Nature Conservancy
| Partners: | The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Ministry of Forests and Environmental Conservation (MFEC)
Arnavon Islands Management Committee
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Current Accomplishments
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The fisheries project is now in the construction phase and we hope
to be fishing by November 1996. Kia already has an operating fisheries
center developed by the European Community and it is serving as the model
for the AMCA project. Two staff houses have been completed at Waghena,
and construction has begun on their fisheries center. The third
community, Posarae, has a provincial fisheries center, but it is small and
will be expanded to meet the needs of the community there in the
enterprise project. All of the equipment has been ordered; the
generators, ice machines, coolers, and fishing gear, and fishing vessels
are under construction in Kia. There is a local center manager in place
at Kia and Posarae and applications are now being taken in Waghena for the
position there. Biological monitoring with sustainability of the fish
stocks as the goal will be an integral part of the center managers'
responsibilities. A workshop will be held in November to train several
women from the three villages to conduct socio-economic monitoring to
determine the effects of the fisheries project on the livelihoods of the
local people.
