Fisheries learning exchanges and sea turtle conservation: An effort between Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. to engage Cuban coastal communities in non-consumptive alternative behaviors

Bretos, Fernando; Ricardo, Julia Azanza; Moncada, Félix; Peckham, S. Hoyt; Valdés, Jorge A. Angulo; Diego, A. de; Thompson, Katie R.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.05.022

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“…Tri-national initiatives among Cuba, Mexico, and the United States (U.S.) are currently being developed to advance the conservation of marine ecosystems and pelagic fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) 13,14 . Billfishes, tunas, and sharks are common components of the pelagic ecosystem in the GoM 15–17 , and the territorial waters of the three countries serve as critical spawning, nursery, and/or foraging habitat for multiple species within each taxonomic group 18–20 .…”

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Population connectivity of pelagic megafauna in the Cuba-Mexico-United States triangle

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Wells

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The timing and extent of international crossings by billfishes, tunas, and sharks in the Cuba-Mexico-United States (U.S.) triangle was investigated using electronic tagging data from eight species that resulted in >22,000 tracking days. Transnational movements of these highly mobile marine predators were pronounced with varying levels of bi- or tri-national population connectivity displayed by each species. Billfishes and tunas moved throughout the Gulf of Mexico and all species investigated (blue marlin, white marlin, Atlantic bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna) frequently crossed international boundaries and entered the territorial waters of Cuba and/or Mexico. Certain sharks (tiger shark, scalloped hammerhead) displayed prolonged periods of residency in U.S. waters with more limited displacements, while whale sharks and to a lesser degree shortfin mako moved through multiple jurisdictions. The spatial extent of associated movements was generally associated with their differential use of coastal and open ocean pelagic ecosystems. Species with the majority of daily positions in oceanic waters off the continental shelf showed the greatest tendency for transnational movements and typically traveled farther from initial tagging locations. Several species converged on a common seasonal movement pattern between territorial waters of the U.S. (summer) and Mexico (winter).

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Population connectivity of pelagic megafauna in the Cuba-Mexico-United States triangle

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Wells

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“…In the second workshop, discussions were guided towards establishing research and management priorities and to further exploring changes in wetlands. This approach to data sharing and collection stimulated conversations and resulted in an increased awareness of current climate risks (Bretos et al , 2017; Karr et al 2017). Interactions were captured by two note takers.…”

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Transnational research for coastal wetlands conservation in a Cuba–US setting

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Yoskowitz

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Non-technical summary Sharing information between different countries is key for developing sustainable solutions to environmental change. Coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico are suffering significant environmental and human-related threats. Working across national boundaries, this research project brings together scientists, specialists and local communities from Cuba and the USA. While important advances have been made in strengthening collaborations, important obstacles remain in terms of international policy constraints, different institutional and academic cultures and technology. Overcoming these limitations is essential to formulating a comprehensive understanding of the challenges that coastal socioecological systems are facing now and into the future.

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“…The Cuban socialist state relies on local forms of governance and the work of communities for guaranteeing the success of not only its disaster risk management strategy, but also its sustainable development initiatives in other interrelated fields, such as health, agriculture, eco-tourism and conservation (Bretos et al, 2017;Clouse, 2014;Winson, A., 2006). Cuba's community-based decolonising perspective on disaster risk reduction, and its leading role in South-South cooperation and triangulation with the UNDP, is aligned with the necessary economic reparations, cultural recognition and collective participatory action necessary to counteract the impact of centuries of environmental injustice in the Caribbean, now accelerated by climate change (Jafry, 2018;Klinsky and Brankovic, 2018).…”

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Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean

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Morrissey

2020

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The UN's invocation of "human security" a generation ago promised a world increasingly governed by a "people-centred" security agenda (UNDP, 1994, p. iii). In this paper, we focus on arguably the most vital global security challenge faced throughout the planet today: climate resilience. We outline how advancing smart climate action and securing climate resilience can be aided by securitization practices that recall the earlier emphases of the UN's human security concept. The paper draws upon evidence from the Caribbean as a territory defined dominantly as part of the Global South yet offering vital knowledges of productive climate security governance that can be instructive to the Global North. The impacts of global warming are particularly evident for the people of Small Island Developing States such as those located in the Caribbean (IPCC, 2018). By analysing the case of Cuba as a country increasingly resilient to extreme weather events, and by interrogating the genealogy of the broader Caribbean's hurricane culture, we show how an effective human security vision for climate justice and resilience can be achieved by recognising and integrating the valuable forms of locally-attuned knowledge that continue to emerge and coalesce in vulnerable geographies.

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Fisheries learning exchanges and sea turtle conservation: An effort between Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. to engage Cuban coastal communities in non-consumptive alternative behaviors

Cited by 11 publications

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Population connectivity of pelagic megafauna in the Cuba-Mexico-United States triangle

Population connectivity of pelagic megafauna in the Cuba-Mexico-United States triangle

Transnational research for coastal wetlands conservation in a Cuba–US setting

Subaltern learnings: climate resilience and human security in the Caribbean

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