Catch
Catch data was gathered from creel surveys and logbooks completed by fishers between June and December 2012. Creel surveys (Lockwood, 2000) involve estimations of fishers’ catches (derived from interviews with fishers) along a transect and were conducted to determine how many fish are being caught and kept by reef fishermen during fishing hours (night and day) in Kotania Bay. The gear used to harvest reef fish comprises gillnets and traps Species type, length and weight, number of individuals and trophic level were used to estimate reef fish biomass.