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The Sargasso Sea – A Vital Ecosystem Of Global Importance (Infographic)
The Sargasso Sea creates an essential habitat for worldwide species globally. This infographic shows its the economic contribution of this high biodiverse and productive area....Documents
The Science we Need for the Ocean We Want: The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)
On 5 December 2017, the United Nations declared that a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development would be held from 2021 to 2030. This Decade will provide a common framework to ensure that ocean science can fully support countries to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The...Documents
The State of Biodiversity in The Caribbean Community – A Review of Progress Towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
The Report highlights achievements, good practices, success stories and lessons learnt that can be shared, as examples, among the countries in the Region, and with countries outside the Region. It also recognizes that we face challenges, including of resources and capacity, but also as a result of t...Documents
The Sunken Billions – The Economic Justification For Fisheries Reform
The purpose of this study is to raise the awareness of decision makers regarding the economic dimensions of the crisis in the world’s marine capture fisheries. This study estimated the difference between the potential and actual net economic benefits from global marine fisheries using 2004 as t...Documents
The Sunken Billions Revisted – Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries
The primary objective of this study is to reinforce the messages of the 2009 publication and to catalyze calls for accelerating and scaling up the international effort aimed at addressing the global fisheries crisis. The analysis reveals economic losses of about $83 billion in 2012, compared with th...Documents
The Use And Design Of Rigths And Tenure Based Management Systems For Transboundary Stocks In The Caribbean
This document provides the findings and recommendations from a desk study carried out in support of the Caribbean Billfish Project. It includes an analysis of the motivating factors for rights based approaches in order to address the common pool fishery problems which dissipate rents. Human action d...Documents
The Valuation of Marine Ecosystem Goods and Services in the Caribbean: A review and framework for future work
This report provides a summary of economic analyses of marine ecosystem services in the Wider Caribbean Region for the three major marine ecosystem types being addressed by the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME) Project: reef, pelagic and continental shelf. Particular attention is given to empi...Documents
The Value of Billfish Resources to Both Commercial And Recreational Sectors in The Caribbean
The study carried out a comparison of the value estimated both in recreational and commercial fisheries for billfish in the Caribbean. The recreational value was found to be much higher than the value in the commercial sector but total estimates should be treated with caution due to the uncertainty ...Documents
