ISSN 1025-7497 Secretariat of the Pacific Community TRADITIONAL Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Number 12 — December 2000 INFORMATION BULLETIN Group Coordinator and Bulletin Editor: Kenneth Ruddle, Katsuragi 2-24-20, Kita-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo-ken 651-1223, Japan; E-mail:
[email protected]]. Production: Information Section, Marine Resources Division, SPC, B.P. D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia. [Fax: +687 263818; E-mail:
[email protected]]. The bulletin is also available at: <http://www.spc.int/coastfish> . Produced with financial assistance from France and Australia. Note from the editor I apologise for the delay in getting this issue to you. We had Inside several contributions lined-up from Fiji, but then none materi- alised, owing to political turmoil there. Instead, we are going this issue to press with another issue focussing on Solomon Islands, a reflection of the great interest that nation has for this “Special Hunting method and Interest Group”. the ecological knowledge of dolphins among The first of the three articles is by Daisuke Takekawa of the the Fanalei villagers of Malaita, Kitakyushu University, Japan. His paper, “Hunting method Solomon Islands and the ecological knowledge of dolphins among the Fanalei by D. Takekawa p. 3 villagers of Malaita, Solomon Islands” is based on nine months field research in Fanalei village, during the early 1990s. In the Women, rural development Solomon Islands, men of particular villages hunt dolphins to and community-based resource obtain the teeth, which are used as the traditional currency, for management in the Roviana bride price and for personal adornment.