Vanuatu
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Fishermen boost foreign earnings
NI-VANUATU employed by foreign
fishing vessels now number almost 400 and are remitting a total of US$l million back home each year. Men from Vanuatu had initially been employed on Taiwanese longliners working in the South Pacific, but now they are also being hired for vessels fishing in the In dian Ocean and based in Singapore.
Island to get air link NEW Zealand has handed over US$l4,OOO as the first payment on an air strip to be built on the small island of Gaua, in the Banks group in northern Vanuatu. The strip will allow the islan ders to receive their basic needs by air rather than depend entirely on inter
island shipping.