Montserrat at the forefront of marine management

The fisheries division of the government of the UK overseas territory of Montserrat has pushed the island to the forefront of sustainable marine resource management by becoming the smallest coastal nation in the wider Caribbean area to embrace cutting edge VMS technology to support the management and protection of coastal and marine resources.

The initiative is being delivered by The Government of Montserrat (GoM) in partnership with Succorfish, a UK-based provider of global GPS tracking systems and marine vessel monitoring systems (VMS), and will promote responsible and sustainable fisheries resource management, development and conservation within the local marine environment.

According to Succorfish’s head of marine, Tom Rossiter, the company’s VMS technology has been designed to allow small-scale vessels of between 3m and 10m such as those operating in Montserrat to accurately record, monitor and map their exact location to within two metres from every minute to every hour.

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Montserrat at the forefront of marine management