Friday, June 15, 2012


Trawling Ban Grants Belize a Nomination for Award

International award celebrates solutions to save oceans and coasts - (click here)  Hamburg/Montreal/Washington D.C./Rome, 6 June 2012: Belize is on the list of nominees for this year's Future Policy Award. It has been nominated for its Statutory Instrument Banning Trawling in Territorial Waters (2011). The Future Policy Award celebrates policies that create better living conditions for current and future generations. It is granted by the World Future Council, an international policy research organization that provides decision makers with effective policy solutions....


They take themselves seriously.


6th Meeting of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism to be held in The Bahamas‏ (click here)Jun 14, 2012 - 12:03:33 PM


...More specifically, they will be touching on matters such as illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, developments in international law, and the establishment of an aquaculture working group. Another item of interest is the CARICOM/Spain diagnostic study to determine poverty levels in 10 CARICOM fishing communities. Ministers will also discuss proposals for the development of a regional strategy to tackle the lionfish invasion in the Caribbean, as well as disaster risk management and climate change....