Annual reports
Project sites
Contact info
Honiara, Solomon Islands
Morovo Farm Site
Live seaweed reached Marovo in July 2006 after a training workshop was held in Gizo. The participants from Marovo with the assistance from Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and International Waters Program established nurseries and eventually farms were established in Marovo by few farmers.
Unfortunately in 2007 no further assistance was provided and the momentum of farming in Marovo slowed down. However, towards the end of 2007, The CoSPSI project and MFMR visited the site and found that few farmers still maintained their farms and kept on drying their seaweed. The project purchased the dried seaweed and set up a strategy to assist the farmers in Marovo in conjunction with MFMR.
Now a record of 21 farmers was registered in Marovo. Production from Marovo
appeared in December 2007 with a total of more than 1.4 MT of dried seaweed
was produced by farmers in 2008. The farmers are now assisted by the MFMR
and the CoSPSI is providing assistance in purchasing dried seaweed.