The exclusive economic zone of Samoa comprises those areas of the sea, sea bed, and subsoil that are beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea
Table extracted from the "Local Fisheries Regulations 1995" that details the minimum size of fish which may be sold or caught.
Table extracted from the Local Fisheries Regulations 1995 - listing the fish and invertebrates prohibited for sale
Table extracted from the Local Fisheries Regulations 1995 - this specifies the species of fish in respect of which the Director may declare a period or periods when fishing for such species is prohibited.
Direct link to all of Samoa's species occurrences on GBIF records
Link to the Samoa's datasets hosted on GBIF website
"This document represents a concise but nevertheless comprehensive report on the State of the Environment in Western Samoa. It was prepared as supporting documentation to the National Environment and Development Management Strategies document and process which culminated in Cabinet-endorsed strategies aimed at ensuring that present and future development activities within Western Samoa are undertaken with all due consideration for sustaining environmental quality. This State of Environment Report was one of several documents prepared for this process."
The 2006 State of Environment Report (SOE) Report illustrates very clearly Samoa‟s environmental
vulnerabilities and challenges, as well as supporting the creation of a more enabling sustainable
development environment. Much of this Report, however, summarizes the current state of knowledge
about the environment of Samoa. It instigates the move towards identifying Sustainable
Environmental Management (SEM) indicators, and then covers them separately in the areas of
climate change and ozone depletion, coastal and marine resources, water resources, land resources,
Reviewing and reporting the state of the environment of Samoa is an important part of the government’s mandate for achieving environmentally sound and sustainable development. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) is entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating the monitoring and review of the state of Samoa’s environment with the cooperation and support of its stakeholders in line Ministries, Non-Governmental Organisations and the wider community.
Information in this report is based on (a) assessments conducted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) on Savai’i in May 2012 as part of the in-country training of fisheries officers from the Samoa Fisheries Division and (b) the follow-up survey in Upolu by the trained team in July 2012.
This short film was produced for The Last Straw - Preventing our Oceans from becoming Dumps side event during the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States.
The Framework takes into account the longer-term rehabilitation and reconstruction plans of the Government and local communities with an aim to capitalize on opportunities to reinvigorate existing policies and plans for disaster risk reduction and to rebuild communities better.
The ‘turtle tag and release’ partnership between the MNRE and Malua Theological College started in 2004 which an aim to tag and release some of the adult turtles that are kept in the pond when it is becoming overcrowded.
Assessing Samoa's situation with regard to sustainable development in the past decade.
Developing a vision for the next 50 years
This report focuses on marine turtles and attempts to give an account on the number and fate of marine turtles that were stranded on land after the tsunami waves.
Please submit new information or corrections as the reviews will be updated annually.