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Regional Update - 2000
Surveys
Workshops
AGRRA
Publication
AGRRA Database
Several AGRRA surveys were conducted during the year 2000. These included
A survey of 56 sites along the North Coast of Jamaica during August 2000
A
survey of 35 sites along the Belize Barrier Reef (concentrating mainly on the central barrier, Turneffe Island and Glover’s Reef Atoll)
during July 2000
A
Survey of Banco Chinchorro in Mexico
A survey
of Cuba planned for 2001
Additional
surveys in 2001 are being planned for Nicaragua, Columbia, Puerto Rico, S.E.
Bahamas, Dominican Republic/Haiti and in the eastern Caribbean.
Two workshops were conducted during this time period. They were
A 7-day training workshop in Jamaica at the Discovery Bay Marine Lab. Twenty persons, including individuals representing Jamaica’s Natural Resources
Conservation Authority (NRCA), the University of West Indies, and officials from the Negril and Montego Bay Marine Parks,
attended the workshop.
A
two-day workshop in Miami during May 2000, bringing together some 25 leaders of AGRRA teams to present results of their
assessments, plan a volume of reports, and discuss modifications in the methodology.
Other updates
A
special issue of Atoll Research Bulletin synthesizing AGRRA
reports will be published in June 2001.
The
newly established AGRRA Database is the most comprehensive data on reef condition in the Atlantic.
Plans are currently underway to make the database available through the web.
A summary of data to date and number of field
reports were presented at the International Coral Reef Symposium in Bali.
Volume
of AGRRA Reports:
AGRRA Database:
Databases are essential for managing large quantities of data and allowing statistical comparisons to be made, especially across various spatial scales. The AGRRA Database is now the most comprehensive data on reef condition in the western Atlantic. It is comparable to databases on health of cities or villages prepared by public health organizations and can serve the same purposes for managers of reef parks and governmental officials concerned with fisheries and tourism. The Database includes summaries of coral condition, algae and fish for each site and allows comparisons to be made on several spatial scales. Plans are currently underway to make the database available through the world wide web.
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. | Last updated: 18 December, 2000 |
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