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Regional Spiny Lobster Declaration in Review

This story was posted 8 years ago
30 March 2015
in Environment
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Heads of national fisheries authorities from the 17 Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), as well as observers and partner agencies, will attend the 13th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum in Grenada this week. The representatives will review the status of fisheries and aquaculture in the region and chart the roadmap for enhancing their contribution to national and regional development.

CRFM Executive Director, Milton Haughton, said, “The fisheries and aquaculture sector is playing an increasing role in food and nutrition security, as well as the provision of income and livelihoods for the people of the Caribbean.”

The 13th Meeting of the Caribbean Fisheries Forum will open at 9 am on Monday, 30 March at the Flamboyant Hotel in St George, Grenada. It will conclude on Tuesday, 31 March 2015.

The Forum is the arm of the CRFM which provides technical and scientific leadership to the organisation. It also provides advice to the CRFM Ministerial Council on regional actions for sustainable development and conservation of the resources.

At its upcoming meeting, the Forum is expected to review and finalise the latest version of the regional lobster declaration and recommend its approval by the Ministerial Council, when it meets in Grenada in May 2015. This is an agreement to promote harmonised regional actions to ensure the sustainability and conservation of spiny lobster resources, and to protect its habitats and ecosystems against the threats of irresponsible fishing, habitat degradation, and climate change and related adverse impacts.

Apart from advancing the regional spiny lobster declaration, the Caribbean Fisheries Forum will review and refine the plan of action for the Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy (CCCFP) — a regional agreement for the conservation, management and sustainable utilisation of fisheries and aquaculture resources.

The Forum will also review activities in CRFM states to achieve the sustainable management and use of fisheries resources (including flying fish, tunas and other tuna-like species), the sustainable development of aquaculture, and adaptation to climate change and disaster risk management in the sector.

The CRFM is an inter-governmental organisation of Caribbean states, namely Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The CRFM’s goal is to establish appropriate measures for the conservation, management, sustainable utilisation and development of fisheries resources and related ecosystems. It also works to strengthen the skills of fishers across the region, as well as to optimise the social and economic returns from the fisheries sector. Finally, the CRFM promotes competitive trade and stable market conditions.

The fisheries sector in the Caricom / CARIFORUM region employs over 182,000 persons, directly or indirectly. These fishers are mostly from rural communities which lack other income-earning opportunities.

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