Fisheries experts from around the Pacific are meeting this week in New Caledonia to co-ordinate community-based programs for managing the region's coastal fisheries.The coastal fisheries are vitally important for food supply and income generation but they are under threat from activities such as illegal, unregulated fishing by distant water nationsThe director of the coastal fisheries and aquaculture program at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Lindsay Chapman, says attempts to use Western approaches to fisheries management, have failed.Chapman says they want the marine scientists, natural resource managers, researchers, community fishers and NGOs to look at uniting the hundreds of community schemes.\We have got all of these pilot sites