Report of the Regional Workshop on the Monitoring and Management of Queen Conch, Strombus gigas
Subtitle: Kingston, Jamaica, 1-5 May 2006.
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Series: FAO fisheries report -- no. 832.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789251057209
Subjects: Queen conch -- Ecology -- Congresses.; Queen conch -- Monitoring -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses.; Queen conch -- Economic aspects -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses.; Queen conch fisheries -- Caribbean Area -- Management -- Congresses.; Queen conch industry -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The purpose of the workshop was to assist Caribbean countries in the development of effective management plans for queen conch fisheries and, consequently, to improve their capacity to implement regulations and obligations under the Convention on International trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife of the Cartagena Convention. This report includes, in the main body, the workshop objectives and program, national reports from participating countries, analysis of issues from the subregional management zones and main conclusions of the workshop. Draft national management plans completed by individual participants and other workshops outputs are documented in the appendix to this report.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "FIMF/R832 (En)."

Includes bibliographical references.