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.