The managers of the Protected Marine Areas (AMP) of the French Caribbean Islands met on June 16 & 17 in Saint Barthélemy for their annual roundtable. The Réserve Naturelle de Saint-Martin was among the participants, along with the Territorial Environmental Agency of Saint Barth, the national marine park of Guadeloupe, and the mission to create a national marine park in Martinique. After a tour around the table during which each of the protected areas presented their ongoing activities and shared information on their national strategies, the managers worked together in ateliers on specific themes:
- Sargassum seaweed
- Health of the coral reefs
- Management and control of human activities in the protected areas
- Environmental restoration of damaged marine sites, especially with the creation of coral nurseries
- Fishing regulations
- Creation of a European Interreg project to protect marine mammals in the Agoa Sanctuary and beyond.