4FJ Qoli Vakamatau Show
By 4FJ Fish Smart
This podcast was produced with the financial support of the European Union, Government of Sweden and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Its content does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union, Government of Sweden and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
4FJ Qoli Vakamatau ShowJul 09, 2021
4FJ Qoli Vakamatau Radio Show: How fishing has changed in Fiji
Qoli Veinanumi (Communal Fishing) is an important part of Fijian culture. It is about fishers sharing their catch with the Chief, the herald, the spokesperson, the elders every time so that fishers continue to be blessed when they go out to sea and so, the mana will remain in the ocean.
But the ocean is not as abundant as it once was because of how fishing has changed.
Alifereti Tawake, Council Chair & Technical Advisor at The LMMA Network explains how fishing has changed and what this means for Fiji’s fishing grounds and being able to practice Qoli Veinanumi.
There are many practical and local solutions to fish in ways that can help ensure our fishing grounds can support our needs today and tomorrow.
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Kivei kemuni na dau ni veitokoni ni 4FJ Movement, ka ni dau vakatudaliga tiko mai ena vei matai kei na i katolu ni Siga Vukelulu ena veivula ena parokaramu na Qoli Vakamatau, oqo e dua na kena katokatoni e rawa ni o ni na vakarorogo kina.
E dua na taro e laveti cake mai oya na i balebale ni vosa na qoli veinanumi. E taro vinaka baleta ni dabe koto kina e vica ka e rawa ni da veitalanoa kina.
Sa seavu yani na kena vakabulabulataki tale mai na veinanumi ni da lesu mai na qoli, ni ra wasei na kedra na noda Turaga, o ira na noda qase kei ira na yada se na uabula. Ni vakayagataki na qoli veinanumi e sautu na vanua, ra marau na lewena ka sobu na mana ni veivakalougatataki ena noda i qolioli.
Ni sa sureti mo ni na wasea na lavelave oqo, ka vakauasivi na nomuni soli vakasama ena noda rawa ni maroroya tiko na noda i qoliqoli kei na vei ka era bula kina.
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This show was first recorded on FBC Fiji Radio One, 2nd December 2020.
The 4FJ Fish Smart radio program is coordinated by cChange, supported by Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme, with guidance from the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network, with funding from the European Union and the Government of Sweden, and also funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Vibrant Oceans Initiative.
4FJ Qoli Vakamatau Radio Show: Destructive Fishing, Duva & Night Spearfishing (iTaukei)
Did you know using duva to fish can cause long-term harm to our Fiji's fishing grounds? What about night time spear fishing?
Guests, Semisi Meo, Program Manager for Conservation International and Roko Sau kei Totoya, Roko Josefa Cinavilakeba discussed destructive fishing practices and the local ban on night time spear, and took callers from across the nation. Now that is Fishing Smart!
This show was first recorded on FBC Fiji Radio One, 17th February 2021.
The 4FJ Fish Smart radio program is coordinated by cChange, supported by Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme, with guidance from the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network, with funding from the European Union and the Government of Sweden, and also funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Vibrant Oceans Initiative.
4FJ Qoli Vakamatau Radio Show: The premier show (iTaukei)
Qoli Vakamatau is the only talkback radio show dedicated to hosting a national talanoa about what we can do to revive Fiji's fishing grounds.
The first show sets the scene for a national talanoa about Fishing Smart. There are ways we used to fish and new ways to fish that can help ensure our fishing grounds can support our needs today and tomorrow.
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Kivei kemuni na dau ni veitokoni ni 4FJ Movement, ka ni dau vakatudaliga tiko mai ena vei matai kei na i katolu ni Siga Vukelulu ena veivula ena parokaramu na Qoli Vakamatau, oqo e dua na ke katokatoni e rawa ni o ni na vakarorogo kina.
Ni sa sureti mo ni na wasea na lavelave oqo, ka vakauasivi na nomuni soli vakasama ena noda rawa ni maroroya tiko na noda i qoliqoli kei na vei ka era bula kina.
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This show was first recorded on FBC Fiji Radio One, 25th November 2020.
The 4FJ Fish Smart radio program is coordinated by cChange, supported by Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme, with guidance from the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network, with funding from the European Union and the Government of Sweden, and also funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Vibrant Oceans Initiative.
4FJ Qoli Vakamatau Radio Show: Better Mud Crab Catches (iTaukei)
Mud crabs, known in Fiji as qari, are an important source of food and income and are caught mainly by women in Fiji’s coastal communities. But increasingly undersize mud crabs are hitting our markets, which is a red warning light that action is needed.
So Taru Veibi, a Fiji Local Marine Managed Network community facilitator from Bua Loma Ni Koro in Bua, and Margaret Fox, a fisheries expert for SPC, shared stories about the challenges fishers face today and how we can get bigger, better catches.
Calls from listeners were off the hook.
This show was first recorded on FBC Fiji Radio One, 3rd March 2021.
The 4FJ Fish Smart radio program is coordinated by cChange, supported by Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme, with guidance from the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network, with funding from the European Union and the Government of Sweden, and also funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Vibrant Oceans Initiative.
4FJ Qoli Vakamatau Radio Show: Tabu areas, what works, what doesn’t? (iTaukei)
Qoli Vakamatau Show guests, Waisea Naisilisili from the Wildlife Conseration Society-Fiji and Tuimavela Hemo, Chairman of the Navakavu Marine Protected Area in the Tikina of Suva, discuss what works and what doesn't work when it comes to tabu areas to manage fishing grounds.
Naisilisili shared the different types of tabu's, the advantages and challenges and his experience working with communities.
Hemo shared stories from a community perspective about maintaining a Marine Protected Area or tabu area for 30 plus years in his tikina and the challenges to ward off poachers from outside and within his own community.
A tabu area aims to create a safe space for fish to thrive, reproduce and hopefully, restock the tabu area, and in time, restock areas outside the tabu.
This show was first recorded on FBC Fiji Radio One, 17th March 2021.
The 4FJ Fish Smart radio program is coordinated by cChange, supported by Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) Programme, with guidance from the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Locally-Managed Marine Area Network, with funding from the European Union and the Government of Sweden, and also funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies Vibrant Oceans Initiative.