Giving Pacific islanders greater say in ocean science

The isolated cultures spread across the Pacific were experts of marine biology long before modern science arrived. A rich bank of local knowledge amassed over generations of physical and spiritual reliance on the ocean furnished these communities with a deep understanding of ocean currents, species diversity and resource management that researchers would be sensible to acknowledge.
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