In November 2003, the first LMMA workshop was held in Honiara, Solomon Islands, coordinated by the Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International (FSPI) Fiji, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Papua New Guinea, and facilitated by LMMA Network representatives Hugh Govan and Rebecca Samuel. Members from various NGOs, government and the private sector attended, including Tetepare Descendants Association, WWF Solomon Islands (WWF-SI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Roviana & Vonavona Marine Resource Management Program, FSPI-SI, Solomon Islands Development Trust (SIDT), Environmental Concerns Action Network of the Solomon Islands (ECANSI), Dive Gizo, International Waters Programme (IWP), World Fish Center (WFC), and SI Government Fisheries Department and Department of Environment & Forest Conservation. At the workshop, participants agreed to form a Solomon Islands LMMA Network (SILMMA) and elected a coordinator and assistant to begin work in 2004.

Some partners, such as Shankar Aswani from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, WWF-SI, Tetepari Descendants Association and TNC, had existing background monitoring information on their projects prior to joining the Network that they could use as baseline data; others were introduced to the concept of monitoring.

Initially, the SILMMA coordinator was housed in Gizo, Western Province, under WWF-SI, which provided a computer, communications access to members, and general administrative support. Now, the new SILMMA coordinator, Silverio Wale, is working on Network activities under the administrative support of the FSPI-SI Coastal Programme.

The pink circles on the map below indicate areas of LMMA activity in the Solomon Islands.