For many companies the term ‘sustainable’ is nothing more than window dressing, a buzzword to use in their marketing with only the most rudimentary effort towards achieving goals that can be tenuously described as low impact。As we’ve seen from RVS Fishworld’s years of training whole communities of fishermen in the Philippines their sister company Golden Ocean is beginning to do the same in the communities of Papua New Guinea.
去lden Ocean will soon be holding their second seminar to train local fishermen in the proper collection of local ornamental fish using nets and techniques that have been proven to work in the Philippines for decades, following up on 40 local PNG fishermen already trained in December of last year. It’s important to mention that this investment by Golden Ocean into the local communities that live on the shores of PNG’s natural reefs is actuallymore expensive比从国外招募自己的员工，这些员工已经经过了训练有素，并且在观赏鱼类系列中经验丰富。
除了食用的食物（例如鱼类和贝类）外，较小的鱼类，鲨鱼和不成熟珊瑚的较小观赏物种并不具有太多的经济价值。我们并不是说必须买东西和出售东西才能成为valuable但是，当当地社区可以将切实的价格归因于通常被忽略的生物体时，他们更有可能以更多的尊重和可持续的实践来对待整个生态系统。
This ethos is precisely what Golden Ocean is aiming to instill in local communities by training local fishermen in non-destructive collection of ornamental fish, sharks, corals and other species which aren’t consumed as food, used in handicraft, or incinerated to produce cheap lime. Small anthias, wrasses and gobies are not exactly keystone species of coral reefs but it’s only through the aquarium trade that coastal villages can derive some economic benefit, and with proper training the villagers can learn to harvest these highly abundant species with minimal impact to the marine habitat.
Iconic Australian Lineatus Wrasse Collected in Papua New Guinea
This isn’t the first time that aquarium ‘programs’ have been attempted around Papua New Guinea but efforts like SeaSmart, EcoEZ, and even thePNG 2.0 reboot EcoAquariums一开始，由于善意而误导的法规而被削弱，这迫使当地人只在自由潜水时收集。这些限制几乎确保了较高的价值物种，例如外科医生，扭曲和神仙鱼，而常见的，浅水物种迅速使水族馆市场饱和，导致销售低，甚至更少。
The net training of local fishermen to use nets and safely dive to moderate depths using SCUBA and hookah iscritical能够获得更高的价值物种，以及诱使从巴布亚新几内亚下达的动物的多样性！金洋在对当地渔民的培训中逐步建立了牲畜目录，只等待工业冷却器才能到达，然后扩展到珊瑚，蛤lam和其他无脊椎动物 - 对当地村民进行的培训得到了许多不同国际公司的支持。多年来，金洋很少会将可持续收获的方法传播给巴布亚新几内亚岛和省的更多社区。
