Delegates from CRFM member states and CRFM secretariat staff at the thirteenth regular meeting of the ministerial council
BELIZE CITY, Belize — Caribbean fisheries ministers who met for two days last week in Saint Kitts and Nevis underscored the need for the region to take urgent action to address the ongoing Sargassum scourge, as well as illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing—two of the most pressing challenges responsible for multimillion-dollar losses to the regional economy.
Eugene Hamilton, minister of agriculture, health, national health insurance, human settlements, community development, gender affairs, social services, land and cooperatives, of St Kitts and Nevis, delivered the feature address at the official ceremony of the 13th regular meeting of the ministerial council of the Caribbean regional fisheries mechanism (CRFM), Thursday, June 13, 2019 at the Marriott Resort in Frigate Bay, St Kitts and Nevis.
“I applaud all of our efforts as member states, as we continually stress the need to establish sustainable small-scale fisheries; as we institute mechanisms for fisheries co-management; and as we promote mitigation and adaptation measures as climate change and disaster risk management responses,” Hamilton said.
Speaking on behalf of Osborne, Eulyn Silcott-Greaves, permanent secretary, ministry of agriculture, trade, lands, housing and the environment, of Montserrat, charged the council to “be mindful of the challenges and complexities that we are called to mitigate, if not fully remedy, such as climate change and the increasing demand on the…
