Filling the gap in Aquaculture Education in the Caribbean

First webinar for teachers. What is Aquaculture? Aquaculture in the Caribbean

Nov 26, 2023

On Friday, December 1, the Caribbean Aquaculture Education and Innovation Hub (CAEIH) will host the first in a series of webinars to introduce the concepts of Aquaculture to secondary school teachers in the Caribbean.

Our mission is to communicate the importance of aquaculture and mariculture activities in the Caribbean and how they support the Fisheries sector. Our long-term vision is for the introductory concepts to be taught in the early years of high school.

The broad scope of aquaculture and its sub-sector mariculture is not well known publicly in the Caribbean. For 2024 we will be hosting a series of webinars to introduce the sectors of the aquaculture industry.

In this webinar, we will introduce aquaculture and mariculture activities around the Caribbean.

We want to thank Mr. Anesh Roopnarine for the production of this video for our webinar & sponsored by Utopia

DEFINITIONS

There are important globally accepted definitions approved by the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) which help us to understand the differences and commonalities between frequently used words. For this webinar we want teachers to understand the concepts behind words that are used frequently in this industry.

Here we define, Aquaculture, Mariculture and Fisheries.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Our lineup so far ( the final program will be in the following email)

Mr. Dean Morris from Kee Farms will be speaking about seaweed farming in Jamaica.

Ms. Natalia Hurtado, Lead scientist at the Bahamas Coral Innovation Hub. The Island School, Bahamas, "Cultivating hope: the role of coral mariculture to help restore degraded reefs"

Dr. Amina Moss is from the Bahamas. She is currently aquaculture crustacean nutrition lecturer at the University of Stirling in Scotland

Mrs. Rosalind Baitel from PanaSea the largest sea cucumber hatchery in Panama.

I invite you to follow and learn more and engage with our guest speakers on their social media pages, Instagram and LinkedIn.

We are also inviting teachers to send their questions in via this newsletter or our social media sites ahead of the webinar.

SPONSORSHIP REQUEST

As a team, we are very passionate about continuing our free webinars for 2024. However, there is a lot of background work and technology support to put these webinars together. CAEIH is one of its kind in the Caribbean bringing together all stakeholders who have an interest like us to see the growth of aquaculture in the Caribbean. We will be launching a GoFundMe to raise the funds to help us be more consistent with our outreach program. Please support us in any way you can.

In the meantime, there is a donate page on our website

DONATE

and you can also sponsor us on this platform.

I would like to thank the following individuals for their support and continued dedication to our mission

Dr. Megan Davis

Sven Lapiner

Mia Avril

Megan Constandine

J. Reid

And to the following organizations