{"id":4666,"date":"2014-05-15T23:07:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T23:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2019-12-05T23:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:47:29","slug":"4666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/15\/4666\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionfish Project Technical Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LionfishProjectFinal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LionfishProjectFinal-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"LionfishProjectFinal\" class=\"wp-image-4667\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Invasive Alien Species (IAS) are a major threat to the vulnerable marine, freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity. IAS are a major interest to Jamaica as they pose a direct threat to the high level of biodiversity. Jamaica\u2019s industries are centred on the country\u2019s biodiversity. As such a decrease in biodiversity threatens the livelihood of fishers, farmers, and persons employed to the tourism industry. Negative impact on these industries as a result of IAS will result in a significant reduction in Jamaica\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP).<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project objective is to mitigate the threat to local biodiversity and economy from IAS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be achieved through five main initiatives: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Increasing <\/strong>the national capacity to address potential risks posed to biodiversity of global significance from invasive alien species<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Increasing <\/strong>regional cooperation to reduce risk posed to biodiversity of global significance from invasive alien species<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strengthening <\/strong>access to data and establishment of best practice, and public awareness of IAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Increasing <\/strong>capacity to strengthen prevention of new IAS introductions; and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Increased <\/strong>capacity to respond, control and manage IAS impacting globally significant biodiversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth initiative includes the implementation of a pilot project to control and manage the spread of the Lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) in Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Lionfish-Project-Final-Technical-Report1.pdf\">Lionfish Project Final Technical Report<\/a>&nbsp;(PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invasive Alien Species (IAS) are a major threat to the vulnerable marine, freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity. IAS are a major interest to Jamaica as they pose a direct threat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,39,58],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13394,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/13394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}