The Fish Sampling at Lata Fish Market in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands

Paul Jay Tua1, Dr. Reuben John Sulu2, Ainsof So'o3

1 Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, P.O Box G2, Honiara, Solomon Islands; 2 Mekem Strong Solomon Islands Fisheries, PO Box G2, Honiara, Solomon Islands; 3 SPREP, Apia, Samoa

Corresponding author(s): Paul Jay Tua (PTua@fisheries.gov.sb)

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Abstract

The data sampling was taken originally from the fishers and not from fish vendors. Fishers were voluntarily provided their fish catches on day basis to the fisheries enumerators. The data contained fish species fished by the local fishers both from the offshore and inshore region within Temotu provincial water and for instance the most dominant fish family are from Lutjanidae and Scombridae. The fish sampling was purposely to provide a baseline information for Temotu Provincial Government on its fisheries on the basis that a private fish company (called Temout Fish Ltd) operates in the province purchasing fish from the local fishermen.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

Project details

Project title: The Fish Sampling at Lata Fish Market in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands
Personnel: Paul Jay Tua, Andrew  Apela, Anderlyn Metake
Funding: The project was funded by the New Zealand Aid Program housed in the Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources named Mekem Strong Solomon Islands Fisheries (MSSIF). The support covers all the technical and administrative costs of the sampling programme from October 2016 to November 2017. 
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Solomon Islands is an archipelago in the south-west Pacific, consists of a double chain of rocky islands and some small coral islands. The major islands are Guadalcanal, Choiseul, Santa Isabel, New Georgia, Malaita and Makira (or San Cristobal) and Santa Cruz (or Nendo).Most of the islands are part of the Solomon Islands marine rich ecosystems. The work was conducted in Nendo Island,Temotu Province, on the eastern part of the country.  
Design description: The sampling intend to provide baseline information for the Provincial Government (Temotu Province) on its fisheries, resource status/viability for fishing operations in the province and finally supports the development of snapper fisheries management plan.The sampling was undertaken by fisheries enumerators though prior to the work, enumerators were trained on the basic sampling approach. The approach is call digital photographic system (DPS) and basically it involves capturing photographs of individual fish species on a designed measuring board with a camera stand frame of a meter height. A pre-programmed SD card is inserted into the camera to capture fish species on the specially designed measuring board that has numeric numbers in centimetres from 1 to 150. Primarily the DPS records the fish species caught or landed through capturing of fish photographs, the fish species lengths and also the fisher’s name to allow the visual linkage between the particular fish catch and the fisher.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=fish_sampling_at_lata_market

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: For the one year period of the fish sampling does records a total of 65 species from 11 families. 
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Actinopterygii

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The map shows where the sampling area situated: Lata fish market, Lata, Nendo Island, Temotu Province. It also covers some of the coastal region where fishing activities being conducted. 
Coordinates: 10°44'0.52''S and 10°38'37.46''S Latitude; 165°45'33.54''E and 165°50'23.99''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: October 10, 2016 - November 30, 2017

Methods

Method step description: 
Study extent description: The sampling was conducted at a single location in Lata Township, Nendo Island.The program was done for a year recording fish species and lenghts via the sampling methodology and the fishers comes from Nendo Islands and perhaps some from nearby Islands - Reef Islands and fishing activities happened close to Tinakula fishing grounds.
Sampling description: The approach used was digital photographic system (DPS), it involved capturing individual fish images through the usage of a camera. The is attach to a designed measuring board with stand frame of about a meter height and ontop of the stand where the camera is facing downward attach with a screw. In the camera, a pre-programmed SD card was inserted for image storages and the designed measuring board has numeric numbers in centimetres from 1 to 150. Primarily the DPS records the fish species caught or landed,the fish species lengths and also the fisher’s name to allow the visual linkage between the particular fish catch and the fisher.
However, undertaking sampling requires two enumerators responsible for placing the fish species onto the measuring the board and another one will work on the camera capturing the photographs. 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive The Fish Sampling at Lata Fish Market in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
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Distribution: https://ipt.sprep.org/archive.do?r=fish_sampling_at_lata_market
Publication date of data: 2018-10-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-10-25
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