{"id":5991,"date":"2014-12-22T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2014-12-22T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:35:17","slug":"cuba-and-new-england-share-marine-conservation-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2014\/12\/22\/cuba-and-new-england-share-marine-conservation-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba and New England share marine conservation experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ptown<\/a>\u00a0President Obama recently announced momentous changes<\/a> in the United States policy toward Cuba.\u00a0 The implications of this sea-change are wide-ranging, including the potential for enhanced scientific collaborations<\/a>, and more effective and cooperative environmental management<\/a>.\u00a0 EDF has a long and diverse history of productive partnerships in Cuba<\/a>, which have shown us quite clearly this potential.<\/p>\n

A recent example involved a delegation of seven Cuban fishery managers, scientists and industry leaders joining four EDF staff and two partners from the Mexican organization COBI<\/a> at the Center for Coastal Studies<\/a> (CCS) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the very end of Cape Cod.\u00a0 There, the group had wide-ranging discussions of experiences, challenges and successes in improving management of marine resources.\u00a0 The workshop had a particular focus on better use and integration of spatially-explicit science and management tools.\u00a0 These include protected areas, area-based allocation systems (e.g., territorial user rights for fishing, or TURFs), and multi-use planning zones.\u00a0 We also paid close attention to the governance structures needed to ensure effective, responsive and participatory management.<\/p>\n

Cuba boasts some of the most vibrant and intact marine ecosystems in the Caribbean. However, with increased fishing pressure and demand for seafood on the rise, overfishing has become a significant problem. Cuban scientists estimate that more than 40% of ecologically and commercially important fish species are overfished, which poses a major threat to Cuba\u2019s fishing communities, food security and biodiversity. To reverse this trend, resource managers, scientists, fishermen and community leaders are looking for new ways to sustain their fishery resources while also protecting jobs and improving livelihoods.\u00a0 EDF is now working with Cuban partners on an ambitious community-based project aimed at protecting coral reefs, ending overfishing, and sustaining fishing communities along Cuba\u2019s south coast.<\/p>\n

CCS was a fitting venue for the workshop because the organization has contributed to research, monitoring and policy for the nearby Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary<\/a> (SBNMS).\u00a0 SBNMS is a point of convergence of fisheries, shipping, recreation, tourism, protected species conservation, and other important ecosystem services.\u00a0 This creates challenges in balancing competing uses, but also opportunities to develop novel and collaborative solutions to resolving those conflicts.\u00a0 CCS plays an especially important role through its efforts to study, track and rescue endangered humpback whales and northern right whales.\u00a0 The workshop participants took a midweek break to see the fruits of those efforts during a whale watch out to SBNMS, compliments of Provincetown\u2019s Dolphin Fleet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, the role played by CCS is so important that Maeve Vallely Bartlett, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was meeting with CCS President and CEO Rich Delaney about the organization\u2019s work on the day that the workshop commenced.\u00a0 Secretary Bartlett and Mr. Delaney welcomed the workshop participants to Provincetown, after which a series of guest speakers shared experiences from New England and elsewhere in the U.S.\u00a0 The Cuban and Mexican visitors shared their own experiences as well, which fostered stimulating discussions about how the lessons learned in each country can inform its neighbors in confronting their own challenges.<\/p>\n

A group of Cuban fisheries and conservation practitioners meeting with counterparts in New England on Cape Cod might seem like a somewhat counterintuitive gathering.\u00a0 However, the same whales that delighted the group during its trip out to SBNMS spend the winter months on calving grounds<\/a> off the east coast of Cuba.\u00a0 Also, many of the ospreys that signal the arrival of spring on Cape Cod, not to mention inspired the birth of EDF<\/a>, migrate through or overwinter in Cuba<\/a> as temperatures drop in New England.\u00a0 So, there are important ecological connections between these distant and seemingly different places.<\/p>\n

But the workshop revealed that Cuba and New England have many other similarities that allowed for a valuable exchange of ideas.\u00a0 Both are looking at spatial management as part of a comprehensive strategy to end and reverse overfishing.\u00a0 However, fishermen in New England and Cuba have different views on the efficacy of spatial measures, with some strongly supportive and other strongly opposed.\u00a0 However, both also have increasing needs to manage a growing variety of ocean uses beyond fishing in their marine waters.\u00a0 Integrated management of fisheries and other ocean uses needed to address these conflicts in Cuba and New England is incomplete, but improving.<\/p>\n

The Cape Cod Times<\/em> reported on the international exchange<\/a> taking place in its backyard, and the most important takeaway was summed up best in the article by Cuba\u2019s Director of Fisheries, Dr. Elisa Garcia: \u201cWe all gain from the exchange and the experience of my colleagues from the United States. We are talking about different places and species but the problems are similar.\u201d<\/p>\n

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