(1) SPC Activities
(2) News From In And Around the Region
(3) The Tuvalu Vaka Project by Steven A. Brown.
A pilot project, funded by Save the Children Fund in 1984 is intended to train Tuvaluans in the construction of efficient sailing craft needed for intra-lagoon trolling and transportation. The need arose as an alternative means of transporting people and harvesting coconuts out on the uninhabited motus dotting the large lagoon. The first project was a 32 foot Windward Outrigger “Vaka” based on local designs.  The second project, a 33-feet motor-sailing catamaran.
(4) Deep-Bottom Fishing in Vanuatu: Initial Results
by Francois Brouard and Rene Grandperrin
(5) A Marine Resources Information System For The Pacific?
by Bess Flores