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Santa Marta, February 1 2018. As part of the project "Sustainable management of bycatch in Latin America and Caribbean trawl fisheries (REBYC-II LAC)", the National Coordination conducted a preliminary training to scientific researchers from the University of Magdalena, WWF and INVEMAR, on the application of the Ecosystem Approach for the management of Fisheries (EAFM) with emphasis on shrimp trawl fisheries. The foregoing as feedback of the lessons learned in the regional EAFM trainers workshop, conducted by FAO in Costa Rica during December 2017.

The purpose of this induction was to establish the theoretical and practical bases for the design and implementation of management plans for incidental catches of shrimp trawl fishing, using the Ecosystem Approach. The balance of ecological and human well-being through a good governance, condenses the application of the ecosystem approach for fisheries management as an appropriate strategy to address the multiple problems facing the sustainability of fisheries at local, regional and global scales. This event will be the starting point of many actions of the REBYC-II LAC project in Colombia, in order to fulfill its goals in terms of improving the legal framework for the management of incidental catches of artisanal and industrial shrimp fisheries.

INVEMAR and other partners of the REBYC-II LAC project in Colombia, intend to carry out during 2018, a series of workshops in the pilot sites on both Pacific and Caribbean to build a management plan of shrimp bycatch based on the active participation of stakeholders.