{"id":300577,"date":"2023-03-23T12:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=300577"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T16:21:01","slug":"press-releasecaribbean-ministers-to-address-fisheries-crimes-at-blue-justice-conference-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/press-releasecaribbean-ministers-to-address-fisheries-crimes-at-blue-justice-conference-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"[PRESS RELEASE]Caribbean ministers to address fisheries crimes at Blue Justice Conference 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belize City, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 (CRFM)\u2014High-level delegations from several Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) will participate this week in the\u00a0Blue Justice Conference 2023<\/a>, billed by organizers as the largest global high-level event on transnational organised crime in the global fishing industry. The Blue Justice Caribbean Hub\u2014to be housed in Jamaica\u2014will also be launched at the high-level event.<\/p>\n

Officials from twelve CRFM Member States\u2014Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and The Turks and Caicos Islands\u2014will be among the participants from approximately 80 countries and territories expected to attend the hybrid event, slated for 23-24 March 2023, in UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n

The CRFM\u2014the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) institution which leads the region\u2019s efforts to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and transnational organized crime in fishing industry\u2014is among the partners joining the Government of Norway and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in convening the international conference.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The\u00a0Government of Dominica intends to sign the\u00a0International Declaration on Transnational Organized Crime in the Global Fishing Industry at the conference and join the Blue Justice Initiative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mr. Milton Haughton, CRFM Executive Director, will deliver official remarks at the Opening Ceremony on Thursday, 23 March, and will subsequently speak with Conference attendees about regional cooperation mechanisms in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Haughton said: “The Blue Justice Initiative offers our countries significant opportunities to obtain intelligence, improve maritime domain awareness, access technical assistance, and strengthen national and regional capacities to better monitor and protect our marine resources and combat fisheries crimes, including illegal fishing. We are very grateful for the support being provided by the Blue Justice Initiative and the Government of Norway and other Nordic countries to support our countries in turning the tide against fisheries crime in the region and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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