Climate Change Baseline Assessment Pohnpei - 2012

Considering the concerns of climate change and its impacts on coastal fisheries resources, SPC implemented the ‘Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation of Coastal Fisheries to Climate Change’ project with funding assistance from the Australian Government’s International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative (ICCAI). This project aims to assist Pacific Islands Countries and Territories (PICTs) to determine whether changes are occurring in the productivity of coastal fisheries and, if changes are found, to identify the extent to which such changes are due to climate change, as opposed to other causative factors.

This report presents the results of baseline field surveys for the project conducted in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), between March and April 2012.