Community Champions talk about local monitoring

Its been over 6 months since the first Community Marine Monitoring training of 42 resource monitors in August 2016. The 10 Champions have lead several community-based monitoring activities and provided feedback on their experiences. Mostly, they have found the Toolkit method easy to use and the results easy to interpret. Watch the video of Charley, Kenneth and George talking about their experiences and how we can improve community-based monitoring in Vanuatu.

Importantly, the fish catch survey results are showing that fishers are willing to talk about their catch, and help better manage reef fisheries. Results are inputed to a central database and sizes of the fish caught compared to the in-water fish surveys. This information is being used to start discussions about size limits for some species of reef fish.