PROJECT

Training program on sea cucumber aquaculture and fisheries management.

CUSTOMER/FUNDING

Autoridad de los Recursos Acuáticos de Panamá (ARAP), Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas (INDICASAT), Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT), Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP)

ABSTRACT

From 2016 to 2018, Dr. Wangüemert carried out training actions in Panamá focused on new tools for fisheries management and ecology (fishes and marine invertebrates), and other ones focused on sea cucumber aquaculture and fisheries. The target public was stakeholders, investors, fisheries managers, members of national public organisms focused on fishery and aquaculture management. During these actions, field work to assess local sea cucumber stocks were carried out and interesting round tables between the different sectors involved.

Panamá