Nonovaul Marina Protected Area (MPA), PNG
Most of the reefs in the Kavieng area are overfished--the demand of a growing population and more and more people selling for money on the market. The people of Nonovaul have declared the reef around their island as a Tambu with restricted fishing and down in the south (in front of the village where it can be policed) they have a permanent no-take zone! Sam, policeman and chairman of the committee, proudly showed us around: huge swarms of parrotfish and a biodiversity and biomass like nowhere else around here :-)
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