BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Caribbean fisheries ministers are meeting in Barbados on Friday to discuss the work of the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM). “This is a very important meeting in terms of forging a new strategic direction for the fisheries sector,” said CRFM Executive Director, Milton Haughton. He said the seventh meeting of the CRFM Ministerial Council will consider a number of coordinated initiatives aimed at progressively improving “the standard of living of our fisherfolk, particularly those in the small-scale fisheries sector (as well as) the region’s food security, by providing consumers in the region with adequate supplies of safe and affordably priced fish and seafood”.