Source: SPC Coastal Fishery Report Card 2025. Data per Gillett & Fong, 2021.
The Coastal Fishery Report Card has been published annually since 2015. It tracks Pacific coastal fisheries against the Regional Roadmap for Sustainable Pacific Fisheries and A New Song for Coastal Fisheries, with year-on-year changes in user-rights coverage, household participation, gender, livelihoods and food security.
First edition under the refreshed indicator framework. Includes Goal 1 (Empowerment): user rights defined in 19 PICTs, coastal share of national fisheries budgets up from 36% (2017) to 46% (2025); Goal 2 (Resilience): 37% of senior fisheries managers are women; Goal 3 (Livelihoods): 28% of households participate in fishing, 9% as main income.
Coastal fisheries as a share of national budgets rose from 0.27% (2022, n=5) to 0.37% (2023, n=17). User rights defined in 15 PICTs; 18 PICTs reporting per-capita fishery values, with USD 43 per fishing household across 15 PICTs.
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Open at SPC LibraryUser rights defined in 15 PICTs. Coastal fisheries as a share of national budgets: 0.2% (range 0.05% to 2.6%, n=17). Median fisheries-staff allocation to coastal: 57%. Per-capita value reported across 13 PICTs.
Download PDFUser rights defined in 15 PICTs (up from 14 in 2019). Median proportion of fisheries staff working in coastal fisheries: 67% (n=18). Median budget allocation to coastal: 48% (range 15–100%, n=20).
Download PDFUser rights defined in 14 PICTs. Median proportion of fisheries staff working in coastal: 51% (range 14–100%, n=17). Coastal share of national budget: 0.2% (range 0.01% to 1.4%, n=12).
Download PDFUser rights defined in 14 PICTs. Median fisheries-staff share working in coastal: 43% (range 14–100%, n=11). Coastal share of national budget: 0.2% (range 0.01–0.4%, n=6). Information from more PICTs than 2017, improving data quality.
Download PDFFirst report card to use a single monitoring mechanism for both regional commitments. User rights defined in 14 PICTs. Coastal-fisheries budget allocation median 32% (range 3–80%, n=8). Coastal staff allocation median 47% (n=8).
Download PDFThe first Report Card to report against key indicators for each of the Roadmap result areas. Establishes the baseline against the ten-year timeframe; 22 PICTs in scope; 4,000+ fish/invertebrate species and 30 mangrove species across Pacific coral reefs.
Download PDFThe first edition. Designed as a benchmark to gauge future progress on implementing the Regional Roadmap for Sustainable Pacific Fisheries, with a 10-year timeframe for all PICTs to put in place policies for community involvement in fisheries management.
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