Volume 69
Future Planning for Marine Invasive Species in the Wider Caribbean and in the Face of Climate Change: A Comparison of Eight Country Plans for the Invasive Indo-Pacific Lionfish
Authors
Graham, R. Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2016
Pages: 228 - 230
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty eigth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Grand Cayman
Country: Cayman Islands
Abstract
A subject of increasing concern globally, especially for the future is that of invasive species, which causes displacement of native organisms. They further pose a threat to native habitat, the economy and human health (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2013) and can have social implications as well. Some of the most notorious are invasions by marine species, which have severe impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems where they proliferate (LaJeunesse et al. 2016), and the problem of marine invasions is only becoming more difficult to handle (Kannan 2015). According to Early et al. (2016), reactive national policies aimed at managing invasive alien species (IAS), that are already established and problematic in a given country tend to be more common than having proactive policies to detect or counteract the emergence of potential invasive alien species.