DRAFT Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem Regional Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis

May 2011 This report is the revised and updated Regional TDA based on TDAs of three fisheries ecosystems of regional significance: the reef, pelagic and continental shelf fisheries ecosystems. This Regional TDA (supported by the three fisheries TDAs and a regional governance analysis) will serve as the science basis for development of an agreed program of interventions including fisheries management reforms, conservation measures and pollution control. A Strategic Action Programme (SAP) with a shared vision for the CLME will be developed, and required priority interventions, reforms and investments to address the main transboundary problems agreed to. To assist this process, the project will create an integrated information management system bringing together congruent fisheries, biological, pollution and socio-economic data and information as a powerful management tool. Similarly, a monitoring and evaluation framework within a Regional Monitoring Environmental Programme will be developed. Pilot projects and case studies on specific transboundary fisheries (spiny lobster, reef, flyingfish, large pelagic and, shrimp and groundfish fisheries) will trial governance models at the local, national and subPage 9 regional levels and provide additional knowledge on means of applying ecosystem based approaches to fisheries management and determining the fisheries‘ socio-economic importance and sensitivities.