New Guinea Freshwater Crocodile - Crocodylus novaeguineae.

In: Crocodiles.Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan: 71-78.
Third Edition, ed. by S.C. Manolis and C. Stevenson. Crocodile Specialist Group: Darwin.

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In Papua New Guinea, recognition of unregulated hunting taking  place  led  the  Department  of  Environment  and Conservation (DEC) to: introduce legislative controls in the late 1960s; and, and establish a regulated program in the 1970s based on cropping and ranching. Crocodiles are managed at sustainable levels for the benefi t of customary landowners who own most of the land in Papua New Guinea. Crocodiles can  be  legally  harvested  by  landowners  for  personal use (food and ritual), but commercial sale and export of hides is restricted to the size range of 18-51 cm belly width, which corresponds to approximately 0.9-2.1 m total length.

Wild harvests declined from over 20,000/year in 1977-1980 to 12,000-20,000/year in 1981-1989, then fl uctuated between 10,000-20,000/year  (1997-2005)  (Solmu  and  Sine  2009). Until  the  mid-1990s  hatchlings  and  eggs  were  collected and raised in centralized ranches. Harvests for this purpose ranged  from  2500  to  10,000.  Early  attempts  to  establish village level ranches fl oundered due to technical limitations, particularly feed (locally caught fi sh), water and management defi ciencies. Trade in live juveniles and eggs to centralized raising facilities continued until 1995 when the largest farm halted purchases of the species due to market prospects and its Saltwater crocodile-oriented management strategy.