Dalzell P
South Pacific Commission Noumea, New Caledonia.
Bull Soc Pathol Exot. 1992;85(5 Pt 2):435-44.
Ciguatera fish poisoning represents an impediment to the development of fisheries based on shallow water reef fish stocks and to the food security of islands where agriculture is limited. Although fisheries development initiatives in the past 20 years in the Pacific have focused on the development of deep slope fisheries and fisheries for large pelagics such as tuna, shallow reef fisheries continue to be a major animal protein source for Pacific Islanders and a source of commercial revenue for fishermen. Statistics on ciguatera outbreaks in the Pacific are limited to local databases in Hawaii and French Polynesia, and to the compilation by the South Pacific Commission of "fish poisonings" reported by the medical departments of the countries of the region. A new database was established at the South Pacific Commission during 1990 to serve as a focus for detailed reporting of fish poisoning and ciguatera in the South Pacific. Some preliminary results from this database are presented and the importance of such information to the development of coastal reef fisheries is discussed.
雪卡鱼中毒阻碍了以浅水珊瑚礁鱼类资源为基础的渔业发展，也影响了农业资源有限的岛屿的粮食安全。尽管过去20年太平洋地区的渔业发展举措主要集中在深海斜坡渔业以及金枪鱼等大型中上层鱼类的渔业开发上，但浅水珊瑚礁渔业仍然是太平洋岛民主要的动物蛋白来源，也是渔民的商业收入来源。太平洋地区雪卡鱼中毒事件的统计数据仅限于夏威夷和法属波利尼西亚的本地数据库，以及南太平洋委员会对该地区各国医疗部门报告的“鱼类中毒”情况的汇编。1990年，南太平洋委员会建立了一个新数据库，作为详细报告南太平洋鱼类中毒和雪卡鱼中毒事件的核心。本文介绍了该数据库的一些初步结果，并讨论了此类信息对沿海珊瑚礁渔业发展的重要性。
