Fish

French Polynesia is teeming with fish.......they all seem to be eatable and the locals particularly in the more rural parts live on fish with some chicken. Red meat is available but imported from New Zealand and expensive.
They eat raw fish, seared fish, marinated fish and cooked fish.
On the Haumana I think the owners relied on fish caught by the crew to keep costs down. Most days we had fish or shellfish caught by the crew prepared in all the above ways.
We did however make friends with the chef who was a frenchman and had worked in England and spoke english. He was very kind and slipped us a meat starter instaed of the raw fish.
But fresh fish straight onto an open fire barbecue is delicious.