BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - According to the Executive Director of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) Milton Haughton, the Fisheries sector is highly important.
He highlighted the importance of the sector as a way to improve the health and quality of life of the citizens of the Caribbean.
Haughton said “The fisheries and aquaculture sector makes an important contribution to the economic and social development of CARICOM and CRFM member states in terms of food supply and food and nutrition security, employment generation, foreign currency earnings and coastal development.”