March 23, 2017 – As of March 2017, 17 out of a total of 24 GEF eligible countries had signed the CLME+ Project Document. Countries which have not yet signed the CLME+ Project Document are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. Continue reading “Status of CLME+ Project Document Signatures”
Category: CLME+ Project
CLME+ SAP and Project Actions underscored at the Cartagena Convention IGM
March 20, 2017 Country representatives from the wider Caribbean Region met in Cayenne, French Guiana from 15-17 March 2017 for the Seventeenth Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) of the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme and Fourteenth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the wider Caribbean Region (“Cartagena Convention”). Continue reading “CLME+ SAP and Project Actions underscored at the Cartagena Convention IGM”
EBM Sub-project along the North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem
March 15, 2017 – A workshop to support the development of the full project document and results framework for an Ecosystem Based Management (EBM) sub-project along the North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem took place in Cayenne, French Guiana 10-11 March, 2017. Continue reading “EBM Sub-project along the North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem”
Ecosystem Based Management Workshop
March 09, 2017 – UNEP-CEP as Secretariat to the Cartagena Convention with financial support from the UNDP/GEF CLME+ Project will be convening a two day stakeholder dialogue to formulate the Ecosystem Based Management sub-project for the North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem (LME). It will take place from March 11th to 12th in Cayenne, French Guiana. Continue reading “Ecosystem Based Management Workshop”
Meeting of the Regional Working Group on IUU Fishing
March 06, 2017 – The first Meeting of the CRFM/OSPESCA/WECAFC-FAO Regional Working Group on Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (RWG IUU) was held 1-2 March 2017 at the UN House in Barbados. The RWG IUU was established at the 15th Session of WECAFC which took place in 2014 in Trinidad and Tobago. Continue reading “Meeting of the Regional Working Group on IUU Fishing”
Regional closed season for the Caribbean Spiny Lobster
March 2, 2017 – Lobster fishing is simultaneously suspended in the countries from the System for Central American Integration (SICA) from March 1st to June 30th: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Dominican Republic. In Belize, the closed season runs from February 15th to June 15th. During this period the Caribbean Spiny Lobster cannot be caught or commercialized. Continue reading “Regional closed season for the Caribbean Spiny Lobster”
Meeting of Interim Coordination Mechanism for Sustainable Fisheries
March 1, 2017 – Three Regional Fisheries Bodies – CRFM, OSPESCA and WECAFC-FAO – met on the afternoon of the 28 February 2017 at the UN House in Barbados to discuss opportunities for enhanced collaboration related to important fisheries management topics identified under the 10-year politically approved CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (SAP). Continue reading “Meeting of Interim Coordination Mechanism for Sustainable Fisheries”
Formal launch of the Ecolangosta+ Sub-project
February 23, 2017 – Regional Workshop on sustainable spiny lobster fisheries
This morning a two-day workshop started in San José, Cosa Rica on the sustainability of Caribbean Spiny Lobster fisheries. The workshop marks the launch of “ECOLANGOSTA+” (2017-2019), a subproject of the UNDP/GEF CLME+ Project. The Central American Regional Fisheries Organization OSPESCA is responsible for the coordination of this subproject. Continue reading “Formal launch of the Ecolangosta+ Sub-project”
Joint workshop with Brazilian government
February 13, 2017 – On 6 and 7 February 2017, representatives of the Brazilian Ministries of Environment, Foreign Affairs, Fisheries and other members of the Brazilian Inter-ministerial Commission for Sea Resources (CIRM) welcomed the Regional Coordinator of the UNDP/GEF CLME+ Project, Mr. Patrick Debels, and the Coordinator of the UN Environment’s Caribbean Environment Programme (Cartagena Convention), Dr. Lorna Inniss, in Brasilia, Brazil, for a 2-day joint workshop. Continue reading “Joint workshop with Brazilian government”
Official launch of the spiny lobster CLME+ subproject
December 16, 2016 – The CLME+ sub-project “Towards an Ecosystem Approach to fisheries for the Caribbean spiny lobster” was officially launched last week in Managua, Nicaragua, during the extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee from Sica Ospesca. Continue reading “Official launch of the spiny lobster CLME+ subproject”
