The Papua New Guinea National Fisheries Authority (NFA) first hired EcoEZ Inc. to create this program in 2007 with the hopes of being able to develop a model for sustainable, commercial development of the marine aquarium trade. EcoEZ’s program, SeaSmart, achieved this goal with spectacular results despite facing immense local problems and shortages, and a …
Risks The marine aquarium trade is typified globally by unsustainable practices, habitat degradation and destructive fishing methods, often evolving as a community level extension of the larger live fish trade. Philippines and our Asian neighbor’s reefs are widely decimated and its fishers living in poverty. Without radical changes to the way the resource base is …
Strengthen PNG “Brand” signifying Sustainability, Equitability, and Affordability. The marine aquarium trade has traditionally been very price driven with little interest in sustainability. Exporters lack of interest was supported by the purchasing decisions made by importers, retailers and in turn the hobbyists. The result is a trade driven to desperate and destructive actions in many …
