July Updates
The Caribbean Aquaculture Hub, Women's Networking Event, Caribbean Aquaculture YouTube Channel
Hello Everyone,
Happy Summer.
Thank you to our new subscribers and welcome back, readers. After a very successful Women’s Leadership Summit in March, I have been on a short break, working behind the scenes, planning and making goals for the Caribbean Aquaculture Education and Innovation Hub.
You can read more about the Leadership Summit in June’s edition of the World Aquaculture Society Magazine, Empowering Women in Caribbean Aquaculture: A Leadership Summit for Change, at the link below. (If you would like a copy of the article, please send me an email).
Read more about the Leadership Summit in the World Aquaculture Society Magazine
March 2025 marks one year since the formation of CAEIH aka The Caribbean Aquaculture Hub. For those of you who are new to the platform, I am Juli-Anne Russo the founder of CAEIH and I started this newsletter 4 years ago to comment, inform and fill the gap of knowledge of aquaculture in general and what occurs around the Caribbean. You can read more about me at the link below.
Dr. Juli-Anne Royes Russo
Juli-Anne Royes Russo was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She attended Immaculate Conception Prep and High School and later the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. After graduating with a BS in C…
What is the Caribbean Aquaculture Education & Innovation Hub (CAEIH)?
Launched in March 2024, the Caribbean Aquaculture Education & Innovation Hub (CAEIH) is a U.S.-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Caribbean women aquaculture scientists. It is the first initiative of its kind in the region—bringing together a professional Board of Directors and an international Science Advisory Board composed of leading Caribbean and global aquaculture professionals. CAEIH is a pioneering hub that unites science, technology, policy, business, and entrepreneurship to advance sustainable aquaculture in the Caribbean.
CAEIH prioritizes capacity building through education, training, and networking. Through its flagship initiative—the Caribbean Aquaculture Network—the Hub provides technical webinars, professional development opportunities, and a dedicated training program for teachers, farmers, youth, and other stakeholders.
A core goal of the organization is to integrate aquaculture into tertiary education curricula across the Caribbean, offering new pathways for students in life sciences, marine sciences, and environmental studies to enter the aquaculture sector—an area currently underrepresented in academic programming despite its economic and ecological relevance.
Building the Sector with Youth and Women
CAEIH seeks to tap into this pool of highly educated young people, especially women, by offering aquaculture as an innovative and viable career pathway. Subcommittees within the Hub are actively working to address:
Youth engagement in aquaculture
Women’s leadership and participation in aquaculture
A regional networking platform to unite stakeholders across the public, private, and academic sectors
These actions directly support regional goals for food security, livelihood development, climate adaptation, and environmental sustainability.
Stay tuned to upcoming updates to the work of CAEIH.
In 2023, Women in Caribbean Aquaculture (WiCA) was founded to increase the participation of women in aquaculture and to support those already contributing to the sector. Given that women make up the majority of science students in the Caribbean, WiCA was established to showcase their achievements, foster leadership skills, and inspire the next generation of aquaculture professionals. Although we focus on the growth of Women in the Caribbean and Latin America, we invite all women to connect with us.
If you are a woman in aquaculture and would like the opportunity to learn more about the work of your colleagues in the Caribbean, please join us for our next meet and greet with Guest Speaker Rosalind Baitel, country representative for Panama -WiCA, who will be talking about the power of networking for aquaculturists, and Dr. Lisa Benjamin the Trinidad Representative from the Caribbean Academy of Sciences on the importance of publishing academic work
Our host: Leanne Morris Bennett from the National Fisheries Authority in Jamaica
Caribbean Aquaculture Education and Innovation Hub is inviting women in aquaculture
Register in advance at the link below for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Where : Zoom meeting.
When: Saturday, Jul 19, 2025
Time : 02:00 PM Bogota
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