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Western Pacific council brings community climate‑resilience feedback to Guam fishing communities
Summary
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council staff briefed mayors on a region‑wide community consultation effort funded under the Inflation Reduction Act; fishermen reported shifting species, shark depredation and upland sources of reef stress, and the council is funding local monitoring, youth stewardship and a vocational fisher training.
Representatives from the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council updated the Mayor’s Council of Guam on a series of community consultations and a small vocational fisher training program that council staff said were funded through the Inflation Reduction Act and designed to feed local observations into regional fisheries management.
Felix Reyes introduced the presentation. Zach Yamada, who identified himself as a West Pacific Council staff member, described a program of listening sessions and capacity building in island fishing communities across American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Hawaii. “We have some funding through the Inflation Reduction Act to do community consultation meetings,” Yamada told the mayors, and the council has committed to a series of visits through 2026 to collect observations and preferences from fishers.
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