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CBP    Caribbean Billfish Project

Brief Description:
To develop business plans for one or more long-term pilot projects aimed at the sustainable management and conservation of billfish species within the Western Central Atlantic Ocean region. The project will also contribute to regional capacity building, information systems and management and conservation planning for billfish

Lead Organization: FAO

Donor: WB, GEF

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Geographic Scope: Multicountry (regional)

Project Status: Completed
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Start Date: 2015-01-01
End Date: 2018-01-12

Website:http://www.fao.org/in-action/commonoceans/news/detail-events/en/c/881763/

Project Profile Manager: CLME+ ICM Secretariat
Contact Email: info@clmeplus.org
Contact Phone: 00 1 (246) 823 0678

Partners: CBMC, CRFM, OSPESCA,CFMC, Conservation International, International, Game Fish Association, Grenada Fisheries Division, CODOPESCA

Grant (USD): $1,950,000.00

Total co-financing (USD):

(Co) financing not originating from GEF:

Participating Country(s):
Dominican Republic Grenada

Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)

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1. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment

2. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for sustainable fisheries

3. Establish and operationalise a regional policy coordination mechanismfor ocean governance, with initial focus on shared Living Marine Resources

4. Enhance the governance arrangements for ecosystem-based management for reefs and associated ecosystems

4A. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for spiny lobster fisheries

4B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for queen conch fisheries

5. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing an ecosystem approach for pelagic fisheries

5.4. Establish and/or enhance the capacity of regional, sub-regional and national arrangements for implementing management measures

5A. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing the ecosystem approach for flyingfish fisheries

5B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for large pelagics fisheries

6. Implement EBM/EAF of the Guianas-Brazil continental shelf with special reference to the shrimp and groundfish fishery

Contributions to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG’s)

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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

10 Reduce inequality within and among countries

11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans

15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

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