Mahonia Na Dari, the local organization running the project, is continuing its conservation education program for villages and schools surrounding the no-take areas. Part of the program provides workshops and snorkeling gear to students and teachers so they can view the no-take areas underwater. Mooring buoys were replaced with durable signposts, demarcating 21 no-take areas belonging to four different villages. Two other villages have approached Mahonia Na Dari wishing to establish their own no-take zones. A Seacology expedition to Papua New Guinea visited this project in September 2004.

In 2002, communities in Kimbe Bay established and demarcated four no-take areas. Since then local NGO Mahonia Na Dari has been regularly conducting conservation education within the communities and supporting village efforts to set up committees to manage the closed areas. While the problem of poaching within the areas by non-village fishermen continues to some extent, Mahonia Na Dari has responded by increasing conservation education efforts in neighboring communities. In 2003 several neighboring communities established and demarcated their own no-take areas.