A historic policy on managing flying fish stocks has been endorsed by Caribbean fisheries ministers.
“This is a significant development because this is the way we need to go in order to strengthen the governance arrangements for the shared resources, so this is a first step,” said Milton Haughton, executive director of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM).
The management plan for the Eastern Caribbean Flying Fish Fishery was approved at a recent CRFM council meeting held in Dominica, a release from the agency said yesterday.
The release said it was the first time the Caribbean had approved a joint management plan for their shared flying fish resource.
Haughton said the plan was necessary for the entire region but particularly for Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St Vincent, St Lucia and Dominica. (PR)
