Within the AMBIO project, the northern Province of New Caledonia funded this survey in the Voh-Kone-Pouembout lagoon, five years after the initial baseline survey using the same protocol. It aims at assessing the status and trends of habitats and mobile macrofauna in the Voh-Kone-Pouembout lagoon, in the light of demographic and industrial developments and accounting for the existing customary reserve of Oundjo.

Data were collected using the STAVIRO, a rotating video technique developed in 2007, and largely perfected and tested since (Pelletier et al. 2012, 2016). The same protocol was used in the other areas of New Caledonia in MPAs, World Heritage sites and in the Coral Sea Marine Park. The data collected enabled to describe and assess:

• fish habitats and communities, their abundance and distribution;
• fish resources

and thus contribute to improving ecological knowledge in the area and provide an assessment of anthropogenic impacts on fish and habitats.