Update #1

Update #2

Attachment #1 - Provisional Agenda

Attachment #2 - Attendees at Third Meeting of the Working Group on Aquaculture

Agenda Item 2 - Summary Sheet - Provisional Agenda

Agenda Item 2 - Ref Doc - Adoption of the Agenda - List of Documents

Agenda Item 3 - Summary Sheet - Introductions, ToRs and Election of Chair

Agenda Item 3 - Ref Doc - ToR for Aquaculture Working Group

Agenda Item 4 - Summary Sheet - Summary on Status of Aquaculture and Update since Third Meeting of the Working Group on Aquaculture

Agenda Item 4 - Ref Doc - Overview of CRFM Member States' Aquaculture

Agenda Item 4 - Ref Doc - Summary Report of the Third Meeting of the Working Group on Aquaculture

Agenda Item 4 - PowerPoint Presentation - Aquaculture in the CARICOM Region: An Overview of Top Culture Species, Limitations and Interests

Agenda Item 5 - Summary Sheet - Key constraints to Aquaculture development and enabling environment

Agenda Item 5 - Ref Doc - Genesis of Enabling Environment for Aquaculture in TTO

Agenda Item 5 - PowerPoint Presentation - Best Practices for the CARICOM: Exotics and Native Species, Opportunities and Impacts

Agenda Item 6 - Summary Sheet - Competition as a potential hindrance to aquaculture development

Agenda Item 6 - PowerPoint Presentation - Competition as Potential Hindrance to Aquaculture Development: A Private Sector Perspective

Agenda Item 7 - Summary Sheet - FAO Update on digitised library of public and private farms in CARICOM

Agenda Item 8 - Summary Sheet - Considerations for further implementation of 5-year Work Plan for Aquaculture

Agenda Item 9 - Summary Sheet - Summary of Recommendations and Elements of a Ministerial Resolution

Agenda Item 10 - Summary Sheet - Any Other Business

Draft Agenda and Information Note

The International Declaration on Transnational Organized Crime in the Global Fishing Industry

CRFM Ministerial Council Resolution No. MC 15(6) of 2021

Flyer on the Blue Justice Initiative

Report of the CRFM Ministerial Council on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Transnational Organized Crime in the Fishing Industry

The CRFM Continental Shelf Fisheries Working Group (CSWG) convened a meeting during 20-22 August in Georgetown, Guyana, to review the status and management of Atlantic Seabob (a commercially important shrimp) Fisheries of Guyana and Suriname. Both fisheries are certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), which means that they are recognized across the globe as sustainably managed. The MSC certification is associated with certain standards of best fisheries management practices, and places the countries in a strong position to maintain and expand trade with lucrative markets. The CRFM working group meeting supported the countries to fulfill specific technical conditions set by the MSC.   

According to Rob Banning, project manager at Parlevliet & Van der Plas Group, “The meeting, under the CRFM umbrella, was unique as it brought together all relevant stakeholders (public officials, industry, NGOs and scientists) and provided a foundation for fruitful international cooperation between Guyana and Suriname.” Yolanda Babb-Echteld, of the Fisheries Department of Suriname and Chairperson of Suriname’s Seabob Working Group, echoed similar sentiments, noting further that “Suriname and Guyana share the same large marine ecosystem, and hence fisheries characteristics. Hence, the meeting allowed the two countries to learn from each other’s MSC experiences.”  READ MORE

 The CRFM Continental Shelf Fisheries Working Group (CSWG) convened a meeting during 20-22 August in Georgetown, Guyana, to review the status and management of Atlantic Seabob (a commercially important shrimp) Fisheries of Guyana and Suriname. Both fisheries are certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), which means that they are recognized across the globe as sustainably managed. The MSC certification is associated with certain standards of best fisheries management practices, and places the countries in a strong position to maintain and expand trade with lucrative markets. The CRFM working group meeting supported the countries to fulfill specific technical conditions set by the MSC.   

According to Rob Banning, project manager at Parlevliet & Van der Plas Group, “The meeting, under the CRFM umbrella, was unique as it brought together all relevant stakeholders (public officials, industry, NGOs and scientists) and provided a foundation for fruitful international cooperation between Guyana and Suriname.” Yolanda Babb-Echteld, of the Fisheries Department of Suriname and Chairperson of Suriname’s Seabob Working Group, echoed similar sentiments, noting further that “Suriname and Guyana share the same large marine ecosystem, and hence fisheries characteristics. Hence, the meeting allowed the two countries to learn from each other’s MSC experiences.”  READ MORE