A Large Number of Lollyfish (Holothuria atra) washed ashore

March 17, 2017 Matelina Stuart Coastal Beche-de-mer, eutrophication, sea cucumbers

Early in the morning at about 7:50 am on the 8th of March 2017, a report was made to the Fisheries Department that there were extensive numbers of sea cucumbers called lollyfish (Holothuria atra) scattered on the Funafuti seashore. Many of the animals were dead, while some were still active. Lollyfish is a common shallow […]

Coastal Fisheries Division

May 28, 2015August 11, 2021 Matelina Stuart Coastal Beche-de-mer, Coastal, Funafuti, Kaupule, Monitoring, NAPA II, R2R, Surveys, Water quality

All of the Tuvaluan population is coastal and highly reliant on inshore fisheries for their subsistence and local economic needs. Coastal fisheries are grossly undervalued in national accounting and development planning. Decades of poor or neglected management means that many coastal fisheries are fully exploited. Boom and bust exploitation has nearly collapsed the reproductive stocks […]