Examining the potential of using secondary data to better understand human-reef relationship across the Pacific

"This report examined the potential of using secondary human and social data to better understand the complexities of human - reef relationships across 70 island, reefs, and atolls in the Pacific Islands region. Four main aspects were evaluated: 1) population and demographics, 2) reef fishing pressure, 3) land and watershed alterations, and 4) economic development and marine resource governance. In each section, the report describes the data available on each topic, compared the study sites (or a subset of study sites) using those data, and discussed the utility of those comparisons by drawing on qualitative and other site - specific supplemental data. The analysis found that, though these data were somewhat useful in characterizing human - reef relationships a nd the potential for anthropogenic impacts on reefs, these indicators are impaired by the lack of available, comparative data at a sufficiently fine scale to enable meaningful comparisons"--Conclusions. 2014 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) PIFSC (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center) CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System) Library Public Domain 1860