Recommendation on addressing the decline in coral reef health throughout the wider Caribbean: the taking of parrotfish and similar herbivores

Description

Release Year 2013

Region Caribbean/Tropical Americas

Adopted on 17 October 2013, at the 28th ICRI General Meeting (Belize City), this recommendation urges nations and multilateral groupings of the wider Caribbean to take action to protect parrotfish (and similar herbivores) to improve coral reef resilience and to restore ecosystem balance.