Fiji's Fisheries Ministry is looking at how to dispose of more than 200kg of high value fish confiscated during last year's four month harvest ban.
The government banned the fishing, sale and export of all species of kawakawa (grouper) and donu (coral trout) during their peak spawning season from June to the end of September, in a bid to revive their rapidly declining stocks.
Last August, the ministry seized 1.2 tonnes of fish of which 600kg were the banned species.
Minister Semi Koroilavesau says three people have been charged after 260kg of banned fish were found in Suva last July.
Spawning Kawaka (grouper) in Fiji. Photo: Paul McKenzie - 4FJ
