Abstract

Sportfishing, a sustainable form of ecotourism, can bring socioeconomic benefits to local economies as and con-serve local marine resources. Caribbean nations show great potential to capture these benefits by expanding or promot-ing their areas, but this is dependent on having effective and responsible management of gamefish (highly mi-gratory) species. TBF is engaged with stakeholders to collect relevant data to demonstrate the potential for the develop-ment of sportfishing in Caribbean nations and raise awareness of the benefits that sportfishing can accrue. Discourse with relevant stakeholders and local officials are also intended to encourage their active participation in fisheries management issues and engage officials to promote sportfishing and conservation in their respective nations. High-lighting the potential for nations to capture these many benefits as well as relevant fisheries management issues is also intended to ensure that nations maximize socioeconomic benefits for stakeholders through responsible use of their marine resources. TBF also intends to demonstrate that sportfishing offers a much more viable, sustainable means of accruing benefits for its citizens than some of the current practices in place in many Caribbean nations.

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