| This report reviews the spiny lobster fishery on the Mahe Plateau for the 2002/2003 fishing season. In order to improve and maintain proper management of this resources around the Mahe Plateau, the monitoring programme, set up in 1992, was continued this season to collect more information on the spiny lobster stock. Following recommendations made after the 2001/2002 lobster fishing season, a total of 25 licenses were issued in 2002/2003 namely fourteen on Mahe, six on Praslin and five on La Digue. Similar to previous seasons, the most frequently used lobster fishing techniques was snorkelling which involved 21 fishing units, whilst only two units used the trap method and two used both snorkelling and trap. For this three-month fishing season, a total of... |
