To manage bycatch and reduce discards in the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems (CLME+) thereby promoting sustainable and responsible fisheries that provide economic opportunities while ensuring the conservation of marine living resources, supporting country implementation of the CLME+ SAP, and with successful solutions for potential scale up to other LMEs
Large Marine Ecosystem
Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Regional
Budget
USD 35,665,664
Total Cost of the project
USD 5,329,452
GEF Allocation to project
Partners
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations.
The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies,[2][3] is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean.