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Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Generic Amendment to the Fishery Management Plans (FMPs) of the U.S. Caribbean Including a Draft Environmental Assessment Volume I
The Magnuson-Stevens Act defines Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) as "those waters and substrate necessary to fish for spawning, breeding, feeding or growth to maturity." Additionally, fish is defined as "finfish, mollusks, crustaceans, and all other forms of...
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A management capacity assessment of selected coral reef marine protected areas in the Caribbean
This report presents the findings of an assessment of capacity building needs for the management of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Caribbean region. A total of 27 MPA sites in 10 countries and territories were included in t he assessment , which is ...
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Framework Amendment 2 to the Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Thomas and St. John Fishery Management Plans: Updates to the Spiny Lobster Overfishing Limit, Acceptable Biological Catch, and Annual Catch Limit
Framework Amendment 2 to the Comprehensive Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Puerto Rico Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) (Puerto Rico FMP), Framework Amendment 2 to the Comprehensive FMP for the St. Croix EEZ (St. Croix FMP), and Framework Amendment 2 t...
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Legal frameworks for MPA enforcement in the Caribbean : challenges and opportunities
In 2012, with support from NOAA s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) organized the first regional peer-to-peer workshop on 'Building Compliance and Enhancing Enforcement for Marine Protected Areas in ...
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Best management practices for marine cage culture operations in the U.S. Caribbean
These Best Management Practices will be useful to many stakeholders. Farm owners and operators can apply them to guide siting and farm management practices. Coastal managers and community planners can use this information to make environmentally responsib...
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Follow-up on Priority Caribbean Marine Protected Area Capacity-building
"Building upon previous peer-to-peer capacity building workshops by GCFI and supported by NOAA CRCP for priority Caribbean marine protected areas (MPAs), this project helped to address desired site-level follow-up training in MPA law enforcement for Beliz...
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Fishing Regulations Guide for the U.S. Caribbean EEZ (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)
Information on regulations on the various reef fishes of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Amendments to the regulations are also available from this site. For details, readers should contact the Council, or refer to the comprehensive amendment or th...
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A coordinated plan for watershed awareness and action in St. Lucia final report
The overall goal of this project was to establish a coordinated integrated watershed management program including teacher training, student action and public awareness. The end goal is to reduce erosion and pollution in the watersheds to enhance the overa...
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Commercial fishing regulations for grouper conservation in local and federal waters of the U.S. Caribbean
This cartoon, which explains commercial fishing regulations for grouper conservation in local and federal waters of the U.S. Caribbean, was designed by the Caribbean Field Office of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service.
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MPAConnect
"MPAConnect is a learning network of MPA managers and professionals in the Caribbean that works to increase the effectiveness of MPA management by addressing specific capacity needs of individual MPAs through a variety of means, including regional peer to...
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Development of island-based fishery management plans (FMPs) in the U.S. Caribbean : transition from species-based FMPs to island-based FMPs
The Caribbean Fishery Management Council (Council) is proposing to transition management of federal fisheries in the U.S. Caribbean from the current species-based fishery management plans (FMPs) to island-based FMPs. Current regulations under the Spiny Lo...
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Caribbean Coral Reef Institute (CCRI)
The Caribbean Coral Reef Institute (CCRI) is a cooperative program between the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaquez (UPRM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The institute sponsor's scientific research and monitoring programs ...
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CaMPAM network and forum
"The Caribbean Marine Protected Area Network and Forum (CaMPAM) is a partnership among managers, educators, NGOs, GOs, and other users of MPAs in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region. CaMPAM is dedicated to building the capacity of MPAs to ensure their...
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Fishery Management Plan, Regulatory Imapct Review, and Final Enviornmental Impact Statement for Corals and Reef Associated Plants and Invertebrates of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands
The Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for corals and reef-associated plants and invertebrates includes over 100 species of coral (including stony corals, sea fans and gorgonians) and over 60 species of plants (including seagrasses) and invertebrates. The Plan...
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Enhancing Capacity for Coral Reef Resilience Management in the Cayman Islands
"A vulnerability assessment framework was used to compare reef sites in the Cayman Islands. The framework combined both exposure and resilience to assess relative vulnerability. Remote sensing data and climate models were used to map historic and projecte...
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Coral reef research for understanding, management, and conservation
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U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources Division of Environmental Enforcement - Officer Training Report
As part of on-going activities under the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), Protected Resources Division, Caribbean Field Office, partnered with the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) and the U....
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Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease
"Since it was first reported in Florida in 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD), has now spread throughout the Wider Caribbean Region with cases in Jamaica, Mexico, Sint Maarten, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, the Turks and Caic...
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2006 Accomplishments and Scientific Highlights
The Caribbean scientific community has agreed on specific needs in the region regarding marine biodiversity, both in an immediate and in 5-6 year term: exploration of unstudied habitats, coordination of field studies, new inventories of species, managemen...
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Caribbean connectivity implications for marine protected area management : proceedings of a special symposium 9-11 November 2006 : 59th Annual Meeting of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, Belize City, Belize
Proceedings of symposium held to share cross-cutting research and management approaches for understanding biological connectivity in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and to discuss how to apply scientific information to better manage MPAs in the regi...
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Linking the social with the natural a socio-economic review of Shoal Bay and Island Harbour, Anguilla
The goal of the assessment was to collect and document baseline socio-economic data of the Shoal Bay-Island Harbour Marine Park. Objectives of the study were five-fold: 1. To determine the level of public awareness (Anguillians and visitors) regarding the...
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Technical report on socioeconomic monitoring in Cades Bay marine reserve Antigua and Barbuda
The primary purpose of this socioeconomic assessment is to provide an avenue to demonstrate some of the principles that were the basis of a training course on Social and Economic Monitoring (SocMon) in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) held in St. Lucia, 9-13...
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Regulatory amendment to the fishery management plan for the reef fish fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands modifying the Bajo de Sico seasonal closure including a regulatory impact review and an environmental assessment
This amendment includes two management actions. Preferred Alternative 2 for Action 1 proposes to modify the seasonal closure of Bajo de Sico to a 6 month closure from October 1 through March 31 each year to provide better protection for red hind spawning ...
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Socioeconomic information for managing fisheries in the Negril Marine Park paper presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI), 7-11 November 2005, San Andres, Colombia
The Negril Marine Park (NMP) was declared a marine protected area (MPA) in 1998. It comprises 160 square kilometers of coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangroves, beaches and cliffs at the western end of Jamaica, and is the marine component of the larger Negri...
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Characterization of benthic habitats and associated reef communities at Bajo de Sico seamount, Mona Passage, Puerto Rico final report
The study of Bajo de Sico (BDS) in Mona Passage represents a pioneer effort towards characterization of benthic habitats and associated deep reef communities on a submerged seamount of Puerto Rico. The work forms part of the research program priorities of...
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