Jamaica

WINDALCO signs agreement to fund artificial reef project

April 21, 2012
go-jamaica.com

The West Indies Alumina Company has signed an agreement with the Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation to fund an artificial reef project at the Three Bays Fish Sanctuary in the Portland Bight Protected Area.

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Project to Sustain Quality Marine Production Gets Multi-Million Dollar Injection

April 11, 2009
www.jis.gov.jm

The work to sustain production of high-quality marine resources has received a multi-million dollar injection, figures contained in the Estimates of Expenditure for the 2009/10 fiscal year reveal.

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News List

Maritime Administration ahead of schedule in scrapping Suisun Bay mothball fleet 10/15/2012 Aged and crumbling ships may be leaving the Suisun Bay "mothball" Reserve Fleet at a steady pace, but some of their value is being left behind. Vallejo's California Maritime Academy, one of six state maritime schools nationwide, soon will see a nearly $400,000 funding influx, proceeds from the sale of the obsolete vessels. The new funding, $2.2 million overall, is due to a federal mandate requiring federal reinvestment into maritime schools. State delays horseshoe crab sculpture sinking for two weeks 7/26/2012 Artist Chris Wojcik and his Art as Reef team will have to wait at least another two weeks before they can see their 47-foot, life-like horseshoe crab sculpture reach its final destination, the Axel Carlson Reef. Artificial Reef Project Moves Forward Despite Controversy 7/26/2012 Roughly five weeks ago, with the hope of jump-starting a plan to install a fish ​— ​and fishermen ​— ​friendly artificial reef offshore of Santa Barbara, Chris Goldblatt and some colleagues dropped two 1,300-pound hollow concrete igloos into the ocean offshore of Hendry’s Beach. STRI Board of Directors 8/25/2009 Steven M. Barsky Joel Geldin Dick Long Eleanore Rewerts Robert Watts