Climate Action Honduras Project #8274

Control of Lionfish in the Mesoamerican Reef

by Mesoamerican Reef Fund (MAR Fund)

Project Report | Feb 28, 2019
Launching the Lionfish National Strategy in Belize

By Ximena Flamenco | Project Officer

Following the creation of the Regional Strategy for the Control of Lionfish in MAR (2014), Blue Ventures and the Belize Fisheries Department began developing a lionfish management strategy for the country that fully considered direct and indirect interactions between social and ecological systems.

In support to this efforts and with your help, they will be able to launch the National Lionfish Management Strategy (NLMS) and create the Lionfish Working Group. Their aim is to share the strategy with stakeholders to ensure buy-in and to progress to implementation

The objectives of this phase are:

To launch Belize’s National Lionfish Management Strategy (NLMS), in collaboration with the Belize Fisheries Department, and disseminate the strategy amongst coastal communities and key stakeholders around the country.
To establish a multidisciplinary Lionfish Working Group (LFWG), that will coordinate and assess progress against the strategy.

All support provided has been possible thanks to your involvement, each activity developed takes us closer to the thriving resource we want our future generations to enjoy.

Thank you for your help and for believing in our work.

We´ll keep you posted on how this project is developed.

The MAR Fund Team.

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