Aquaculture in Fiji has not been developed on a large scale, the

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being the only species cultured widely. A Fijian prawn farm aimed to produce 25 tonnes of

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in 1990, but did not even make it to the halfway mark in their goal. Most aquacultural attempts in Fiji have aimed to cultivate high-value species for commercial exportation, however the country has not been able to compete with the aquaculture industry already developed in the rest of

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