Hibbert, L. A.

Evaluation of Marine Outreach and Education USVI Style: Improving fishing community awareness and compliance. Executive summary

2015

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"This document summarizes the findings and results of the evaluation of the 2015 MOES-VI IFCACP fisher registration workshops held in St. Croix, USVI, and in St. Thomas, USVI, held during July 2015. The most pressing next steps are to continue monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of future workshops to build on the baseline information collected and synthesized in this evaluation report. There are also very specific findings regarding, for example, how fishers would like to be communicated with, their perspectives on their experiences with various management and enforcement agencies and topics that they would like to learn more about. Uptake of suggested recommendations from this evaluation to improve future workshops, as well as incorporation of other data sources, can play a role in increasing capacity and improving fisher compliance success. Additional assessment and strategic thinking may be needed to determine the best approach for implementation of the suggested recommendations."

FY2014 CRCP Project ID: 812; Project Title: Marine Outreach and Education USVI Style (MOES-VI): Improving Fishing Community Awareness and Compliance; Principal Investigator: Lia Hibbert