– data collection techniques workshop planned
The CARICOM Secretariat has announced that field surveyors from fisheries administrations in 10 member countries of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will benefit from a two-day training workshop on data collection techniques in Grenada from February 25-26.
According to a CARICOM release, the workshop is phase two of the implementation of a study being undertaken by the CRFM towards strengthening coastal zone and community-based fisheries management in CARICOM Member States and it will be conducted by the Spanish-firm Tragsatec on behalf of the Government of Spain, in collaboration with the CRFM on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat.
The forum will equip the surveyors with the necessary skills to conduct field work on a diagnostic study to determine the poverty levels in fishing communities in selected CARICOM/CRFM Member States.
The study will be done over an 18-month period, to determine the poverty levels in these communities and the effects on the communities’ quality of life and structures.
This determination will assist in identifying suitable models for planning and implementing alternative livelihood programmes and to alleviate poverty in fishing communities.
In addition, it will aid in identifying the demographic, socio-economic, biological and environmental variables that underlie the low standards of living in the fishing communities, and devise means of monitoring and evaluating them to determine the achievements of the poverty alleviation programmes.