Belize Fisheries
Developing a Shared View of the Status of Belize’s Fishery Resources
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Project Partners
Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI) is a Mexican non-profit organization that works closely with small-scale fishing communities in the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. COBI joins the Belize Shared Vision to support activities with stakeholders, share our extensive scientific and local knowledge with project partners and document the role of women and youth in Mesoamerican Reef fisheries in the context of FAO´s small-scale fishery guidelines.
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) fosters innovative, just, and practical law and policy solutions to challenging environmental issues, through nonpartisan research, publications, and outreach. ELI's Ocean Program works to identify and promote better tools, management approaches, and governance systems for water resources and ocean management domestically and internationally. We support ocean management systems that are based on local priorities, inclusive and effective processes, and best available information to reverse degradation from land-based activities, ensure effective management of industrialized oceans, and foster sustainable fisheries.
MRAG Americas is a private consulting and auditing company focused on activities that support the conservation of marine and freshwater ecosystems through responsible, rational and sustainable use of fish and other aquatic resources. Our work is spread across four Client Service Divisions: the Fisheries Technical Division; the Certification Division; the Sustainable Seafood Initiatives and Auditing Division; and the Fisheries Monitoring Division. MRAG Americas is accredited to assess conformance with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) and Fairness Integrity Safety Health (FISH) standards. We also undertake Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs), and other activities to assist fisheries on their path towards full certification. MRAG Americas has conducted sustainability analyses of queen conch and spiny lobster fisheries in the Caribbean region over the past 12 years.
The Sea Around Us is a research initiative at the University of British Columbia. The program assesses the impact of fisheries on the marine ecosystems of the world and offers mitigating solutions to a range of stakeholders.
The Sea Around Us was initiated in collaboration with The Pew Charitable Trusts in 1999, and in 2014, the Sea Around Us also began a collaboration with The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to provide African and Asian countries with more accurate and comprehensive fisheries data. At present, it is funded by a number of charitable organizations (see our Partners page for more information).
We provide data and analyses through Tools and Data, peer-reviewed journal articles, and a News section. We regularly update our products at the scale of countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones, Large Marine Ecosystems, the High Seas and other spatial scales, and as global maps and summaries.
We emphasize catch time series starting in 1950 to the near present, and related series (e.g., landed value and catch by flag state, fishing sector, fishing gear and catch type), and fisheries-related information on every maritime country (e.g., government subsidies, marine biodiversity).
The information and data presented on the Sea Around Us website is freely available to any user.
Established in 1991, The Summit Foundation, a private family foundation, is committed to a world where people can thrive and nature can flourish – a world in which one is not sacrificed for the other. For more than 20 years, The Summit Foundation’s Mesoamerican Reef Program has been supporting efforts to restore and protect a healthy and resilient Mesoamerican Reef ecosystem capable of contributing to human well-being.