French Polynesia with "just" PADI AOWD licence - worth it?

[Deinonych]

Well,
someone who visited in November told me that there was illegal fishing, and the schools of fish had disappeared. Another source who could compare end of 2017 and 2015 also claimd that dive sites had deteriorated a lot, particularly the soft corals. He mentioned for example that there was just hard coral, but very little fish on the dive sites in Kadavu, and there were signs of dynamite fishing.

Interesting. Kadavu, from what I have read, is mostly hard coral cover and not known for soft corals like other areas of Fiji. Cyclone Winston hit in early 2016, so depending on where the sites were located, they could have been hit pretty hard. I know the Bligh Water area was hit pretty hard, as were portions of Vanua Levu.

Curious which resorts this individual stayed at, as Fiji is pretty diverse.