Dr. Tammy Trott to Attend ICCAT Conference
Senior Marine Resources Officer at the Department of Environmental Protection Dr. Tammy Trott will be attending the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas’ (ICCAT) intersessional meeting of the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS) Subcommittee on Ecosystems in Miami, Florida next week.
ICCAT is an inter-governmental fishery organisation responsible for the management of tuna and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean and its neighbouring seas. Bermuda has been a member of ICCAT since 1995.
At the meeting Dr. Trott will give a presentation on the Sargasso Sea initiative.
Dr. Trott explained, “ICCAT has a role to play in the regulation of fishing practices that have been identified as a threat to the Sargasso Sea and in conserving this critical fish habitat. It already has an existing resolution recognizing the importance of Sargassum.
A goal of the Sargasso Sea Alliance is to gain support for the initiative from ICCAT and to encourage it to adopt measures to help protect the Sargasso Sea. This presentation to the Subcommittee on Ecosystems will introduce our agenda to ICCAT.”
Dr. David Freestone, the Executive Director of the Sargasso Sea Alliance, will also be in attendance and the Sargasso Sea Alliance will pay all travel costs for Dr. Trott.
The five-day meeting will review new information regarding ecosystems and ecosystem modelling approaches to fisheries and will also be looking at the research on mitigating by-catch in tuna fisheries.
Dr. Trott added, “My attendance at this meeting will undoubtedly allow me to provide the Bermuda Government with the most up-to-date information on these various management approaches – some of which we may be able to apply locally, here in Bermuda. I will also have the opportunity to network with fisheries scientists from all over the world – which is invaluable in securing both our global recognition and our connection to the international community.”
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Why is it that Bermuda never gives credit to the first pioneers especially those with foresight who spearheaded Bermuda’s membership in the ICCAT world community in 1995.
Bermuda’s schools should teach Bermuda History in all aspects of the dynamics of Bermuda’s evolution to present day. Give the youth something positive to be proud of
and to aspire to. PLEASE.