Andrews,-G.J.; Holthus,-P.F.  Marine environment survey: 
	Proposed Aleipata Islands National Park, Western Samoa.  
	NOUMEA-NEW-CALEDONIA-SOUTH-PACIFIC-COMMISSION 1989.      
	68 pp.

The Aleipata area surveyed includes the south-eastern coast 
of Upolu Island, Western Samoa. The survey consisted of 
general descriptive ecology and morphology for the Aleipata 
coastal fringing reef and the fringing reefs of the two 
detached islands, Nu'utele and Nu'ulua. The Aleipata area 
reefs supply the local population with much of their food 
resources, and a survey of resource use and techniques was 
conducted. The survey revealed that the Aleipata marine 
environment supports typical coral reef habitats and 
associated plant and animal communities, and does not contain 
particularly unique or spectacular organisms, communities or 
morphologic features.