Port Honduras Marine Reserve

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Chapter 9. IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISM

Management tools	Existing	Mechanisms and programmes in place	Comments (if any)
Public awareness, education, and information dissemination programmes	yes	Community Stewardship Program, Junior Stewardship Program, Community Researchers, TIDE Scholarship Program, Visitor education and interpretation, Tourism Best Practices, School field trips, TIDE Summer Camp and TIDE Freshwater Cup.
Capacity building of staff and management	yes	Rangers receive on-going training in law enforcement, public relations, boat navigation, and other skills required, including training as Special Constables.
Research, data storage, and analysis	yes	Research program, monitoring program, collaboration with other institutions and universities.
Surveillance and enforcement	yes	Patrols, Zoning, boundaries and Regulations Inter-agency Collaboration, Reporting
Participation of exterior users	yes	Managed access fisheries.
Alternative and sustainable livelihoods	yes	Tourism development, seaweed farming, chicken-rearing as a supplemental livelihood, support of local fishing cooperative to add value to marine products.
Adaptative management	yes	Incremental, data driven expansion of replenishment zones. Targeting of patrols according to location and timing of illegal activities. Policy recommendations based on research results (e.g. conch size limit should be based on shell lip thickness, rather than shell length).