The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) is said to be undertaking a project called the “Regional Implementation of Climate Change Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) in the Eastern Caribbean fisheries sector”, and already a workshop was held in the Grenville area in this regard. And, later on in the fishing communities of Gouyave and Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
The workshop aims to improve understanding of the climate change impacts and vulnerabilities in coastal and fishing communities, basically to inform adaptation in the Eastern Caribbean fisheries sector.
We hear that CANARI is implementing this work in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission and the National Fisheries Authorities in Grenada, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
FAO Coordinator in Grenada, Krisma Moore, gives us an insight about the workshop.
Moore says the constant flooding in the town of Grenville and praedial larceny of seamoss have been identified as hindrances.
The project is being implemented under the Climate Change Adaptation in the Eastern Caribbean Fisheries Sector Project (CC4FISH), funded by the Global Environment Facility (The GEF).
