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New Fisheries
Amendments to allow better management
 It’s lobster season and while
having one
of the delectable
crustaceans on your plate may be all you need to keep your belly full,
the proper management of fishing grounds and fisheries is what really
keeps all marine life available for local consumption and for export.
With growing demands for seafood, the once open licensing system for
fishermen needed to be overhauled and that is why fishermen and
managers met today at the Fisheries Department to address that
situation.
Beverly Wade, Fisheries
Administrator
“There are two things happening today. We’re officially launching a manage access catch shares pilot project which is really an initiative that is introducing another approach in fisheries management to strengthen our current management regime that is in place. It is actually an incentive based approach that allows fishers greater participation into one; the management of their fisheries and two; it allows them to derive more benefit from the resources because you’re actually managing how many people will be able to fish that resource in a given area. That the first thing. The second thing is to complement the management project we have actually upgraded our licensing system for fishers and vessels in Belize and with any management regime, robust licensing system is crucial. It’s really like your brain of any management regime, because you have to be able to accurately know who are fishing, where they are fishing and so that is what we have done and we have now done it in a way that will improve the current licenses that we have given to give better service to the fishers.” 
Larry Epstein,
Regional Project Manager, Mesoamerican Environment Defense Fund “The Environmental Defense fund has been a technical advisor with the fisheries department in creating a system of fisheries management that the fisheries department will be using to better regulate the numbers of fishers who are involved in commercial fishery and better monitor the fishery itself.” Jose Sanchez “Can you give me an example of the improvements either in regulation or monitoring?” Larry Epstein “Well one major improvement is better systemization of the licensing process and specifically Belize’s fisheries have been managed to date as open access fisheries. So more or less, as long as they are certain minimum age and have proper residency, any Belizean can get a fishing license. It sounds quite fair, but in reality on the water what you end up having under that system is too many fishermen chasing too few fish. And on the one hand that’s really bad for fishermen because they’re making a living off this resource. On the4 second hand, it’s also damaging for Belize’s food security. Out there on the sea, you have a source of protein, a source of fish that is really valuable—both for food security, for the economics of the country of Belize and for the operations of the Co-ops and the fishing industry as a whole. If you have a system which is open access where too many fishermen can just rush in and take as many fish as they want. Yes it seems fair th at anyone who wants to can fish, but the reality is that you have a danger of overfishing. And this system is put in place one; to start managing the licensing for commercial fishing in a more systematized manner and two; develop a monitoring system so there is a better idea of what’s happening with the resource for the commercial fisheries of Belize.” The management access system is being implemented through pilot projects in Port Honduras Marine Reserve and Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve. It will be carefully studied and evaluated then adapted to suit other marine areas. CH5 Finding
The Best Young Film-Makers
We've already told you about the Belize Audio Visual Association's effort to recruit new talent with its video competition for high school students. 
The competition opened today
with
a launch at the Bliss Center where
the ground rules were laid down. From here it's a mad two week rush to
see who will claim the thousand dollar prize. But it's not about money;
it's about shaping the images you see on local tv. We found out more
from Javier Molina, the President of BAVIA:…
Javier Molina, President of BAVIA "Basically the rules are; be creative, don't cheat. We want to see what you can do and let's see how creative you can be." 
Ashton Nicholas,
Prospective film maker
"We have a mind open, we have to sit down and strategize what we will do basically we want to do a music video of basically high school students." 
"Charlie" Prospective film
maker
"Well pretty much we have everything right here at our reach. We have the ocean there and we have the Maya ruin, we have everywhere near to our reach and we will take advantage of it. We will find a way to make it really creative - different from anything that - we have a MTV, HTV and everything." 
Javier Molina, President of
BAVIA
"I do have some high expectations. I mean I've seen some stuff on YouTube from people who are here participating have done. Actually I am expecting very good stuff from these kids." 
Teodoro Rodriguez,
Prospective film maker
"I have some experience in the editing aspect of it because we have done past videos for school." Javier Molina, President of BAVIA "Really the pot of gold for BAVIA is to find out where the talent was, find out who the people are that we can rope in and start molding and grooming to raise the level of productions overall in Belize." We'll let you know who the winner is in two week's time…. CH7 NOTICES &
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hello,
I
just
returned
from
an
8-day,
7-night
vacation
in
San Pedro, Belize. This is my third
visit to the beautiful country/city of San Pedro, Belize.
Every single day, I walked the 2-mile stretch of beach from about Banana Beach to The Phoenix .. and I have to say that I was appalled at the amount of trash that floated on the beach. One morning, as I walked, I picked up trash and within a few minutes I had a full trash bag and no where to place it .. until I did find a trash can and deposited there. As a visitor who loves your country so very much for its true beauty .. I am wondering why the City Officials have not put 55-gallon trash bins along the beach side so that everyone could place their trash in these bins instead of tossing it on the beach sand or worse, in the ocean-front beaches. City Officials need to do "their" part in cleaning up their beautiful city.!. I plan to one day live in San Pedro and do want to get involved in cleaning up the area to truly "have San Pedro 'shine' its true beauty". Thank you, C. Padilla
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