Draft text on common fisheries policy approved at workshop

Stakeholders have agreed on the text of the draft agreement on the establishment of a CARICOM Common Fisheries Policy, following eight years of sometimes difficult negotiations, the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen said in a release.

The agreement came at the conclusion of a Multi-Disciplinary Workshop on the CARICOM Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in Georgetown, last week.

The workshop from April 12-14 was funded by the European Union (EU) under the Ninth EDF for the strengthening