After Natalie Prinz went back to the Cook Islands in October to present the results of her recent Masters Project “To feed or not to feed” to the local community, the Cook Island News now published a report about Natalie’s study.
By Natalie Prinz. After having the opportunity to present at the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference on the island of Tahiti early in October, thanks to a grant by the CRIOBE, I could expand my stay in the South Pacific to travel another three hours westwards, back to the Cook Islands. The …
From 2-6 October, members of the REPICORE team had the opportunity to present their work at the 10th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, which was organized this year in Papeete/Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia, by the French CRIOBE. The conference, the largest of its kind, brought together nearly 500 participants from …
Events linked to Climate Change (such as cyclone Winston in 2016) are preached to be Acts of God. In an interesting article by Patrick Nunn he argues why (usually Western) conservation and climate change initiatives in the Pacific are bound to fail if they don’t account for the strong role …
Over the past month Janne attended three conferences and seminars and presented findings from her research at each of them. From 5-7 July the MARE conference ‘People & the Sea IX: Dealing with Maritime Mobilities’ took place at the University of Amsterdam (NL). Organized by the Centre for Maritime Research …
Establishing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is a common strategy to conserve marine ecosystem and to enhance the recovery of degraded systems. Large MPAs have been shown to be very effective, while the effectiveness of small MPAs (here <1km²) is still discussed. Small MPAs might not be sufficient in size to …
Compliance is key to successful resource management. But what influences compliance behavior with marine resource management in fishing communities in the South Pacific? The social, political and economic contexts are decisive. Our study reveals multiple drivers for non-compliance related to perceptions of limited legitimacy of rules and rule-makers, market …
By Natalie Prinz. Even though the southern Cook Islands were spared from severe coral bleaching in the recent large-scale global bleaching event, the El Niño in 2015/16, we experienced bleaching this year in the Aitutaki Lagoon. In the Aitutaki Lagoon the first bleached corals have been observed as early …
By Natalie Prinz. After a sudden occurrence of dead reef fish in the Aitutaki Lagoon, reports of dead fish sightings were summarised and correlated to tide data, rain data and water quality measurements. There was no obvious cause to the death of the fish. Due to the lack of …
By Natalie Prinz, ISATEC student at the University of Bremen and the ZMT. A 18km2 small near-atoll named Aitutaki was “home” from October 2016 till March 2017, one of 15 islands of the self-governing island country, the Cook Islands. The island is known for its 50km2 large, very shallow (deepest …
