(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The uncertainties surrounding the future of sustainable commercial fishing in the Caribbean region will be explored tomorrow, Thursday, when the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat hosts the panel discussion: `Caribbean Fisheries: Sinking or Swimming in Uncertain Waters’.

The public discussion will take place at 10:00 a.m. at the CARICOM Secretariat Annex, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana and it draws on expert insight from a number of stakeholders in the Guyana fishing industry including Mr. Les Romahlo of the Guyana Fisheries Advisory Committee and consultant Mr. Rueben Charles, as well as Mr. Milton Haughton, deputy executive director of the CRFM.

Issues such as whether there is the shared political will to finalise the Common Fisheries Policy and Regime; whether fishers have enough say in regional fisheries management; whether regional politicians take the fisheries sector seriously; and whether there can be large scale collaboration between regional fishers are among those topics the panelists will tackle.