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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Representatives from the BNT, BREEF and the St Lucia National Trust are pictured at a workshop with some of the spar buoys they made to demarcate marine protected areas.
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Representatives from the Bahamas National Trust, the Bahamas Reef Environmental Education Foundation and the St. Lucia National Trust recently completed a week-long workshop on marine protected areas.
The workshop was hosted by the BNT at the Retreat on Village Road, and funded by the Washington DC-based National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Lead facilitator was Jamaican marine biologist Llewelyn Meggs, who coordinates the Pedro Bank Management Programme, the country’s first offshore marine managed area.
The workshop focused on the construction, signage and maintenance of marine reserve demarcation buoys for better enforcement. This included hands-on training in making and installing the buoys to demarcate marine protected areas.
Participants produced some 30 clearly labeled buoys for deployment in marine protected areas of The Bahamas, as well as a manual of procedures and maintenance and guidance on public communications.
"The training addressed practical skills to help national park wardens and related personnel to deploy buoys to properly identify the boundaries of marine protected areas,” Meggs said.
"We have been building these types of buoys in Jamaica since 2012 for similar applications and are glad to be able to share what we have learned. We had a very enjoyable and successful workshop and want to thank the BNT for organising this opportunity.”
Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas helped the BNT with the testing and deployment training for the buoys.
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