Slow Fish Caribe: sustainable management models in protected areas

The project Slow Fish Caribe: strengthening conservation models sustainable resource us in protected areas of the Caribbean linked to Slow Food is coming to an end.

Since 2017 we have been working on the Mexican coast of Quintana Roo, where the Sian Ka’an and Banco Chichorro Biosphere Reserves are located, and on the Colombian Caribbean coast in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, where the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve is located.

By restoring value to marine-coastal resources and the different cultures that live and work with these resources, over the years a series of activities have been developed which have allowed a diversification of production, the promotion of the territory’s local products, the strengthening of production processes linked to artisanal fishing, the transformation and commercialization of products that form part of the Slow Food Presidia for the Black Crab of Providencia and the Spiny Lobster of Banco Chinchorro and Sian Ka’an, as well as other forms of traditional gastronomy.

What lessons have been learned from this project and what does the future hold for Caribbean coastal communities? These are some of the questions that the communities involved in the project and partner organisations will discuss during the Terra Madre forum.

This forum is produced with the financial assistance of the European Union in the framework of Slow Fish Caribe project. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Slow Food and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.