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The potential benefits of this trade to PNG are enormous. The following is a list of these potential benefits depending of certain cost and management factors being in place. Factors such as aquarium fishery management areas with Management Area Plans (MAPs) being set up and properly managed; equitable export business models with fisher equity stakes; effective certification, monitoring and reporting systems; organism traceability; “choke points” established for product export monitoring; effective and reliable funding; consistent Government commitment and support; ongoing research and resource assessment; and reasonable pricing air freight pricing (the single largest cost factor in product export)

  
 
 
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 is estimated to be of a sustained worth of US$30 million plus annually;
 
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will build on and strengthen traditional customs of resource ownership and land tenure through market international support;
 
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build a sense of local community ownership and responsibility for management for their marine resources and resource areas as opposed to current common property mentality in other fisheries in PNG;
 
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will create community based management systems with direct market support providing for immediate payments of a community’s efforts in sustainable management and resource conservation;
 
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will give coastal fishers an alternative livelihood (from beche-de-mer and food fisheries) that is sustainable, and socially and economically viable;
 
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will help to restore damaged coastal marine aquarium fishery habitat (the same habitat of beche-de-mer and live reef food fish species);
 
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can develop newer aquarium community-based aquaculture and mariculture enterprises and markets;
 
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will provide a model to the world of what this trade can be like – equitable, sustainable and profitable; and
 
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will provide PNG a leadership role in the rest of the Pacific of a business model that promotes and supports indigenous business development, ownership and management.
 
   
 
 
 
 
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