Yesterday morning, Deputy Premier Dr. Kedrick Pickering signed a memorandum of understanding with officials from the United Kingdom’s Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.
The MOU comes on the heels of the government’s formation of a Fisheries Advisory Committee last month.
CEFAS is a centre for marine and freshwater science, and the MOU will allow the governmental agency to collaborate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour on research projects throughout the territory relating to the fisheries sector, as well as technical exchanges of information, according to the ministry.
“I’m particularly happy that we have the chance today to formalise what I believe is a very productive relationship in the shape of a memorandum of understanding,” CEFAS CEO Tom Karsten said at the MOU-signing ceremony yesterday. “And I hope that lays the groundwork for long-term relations between CEFAS and the Virgin Islands government in a way which will be helpful and mutually beneficial to both of us.”
See the Nov. 10, 2016 edition for full coverage.
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