26 CAitlllll. MAR. S'T!JD •• SPECIAL EDITION. 2007 4.1 - Reconstructed catch, effort, and catch per unit effort of four countries in the south-eastern Caribbean. 19RO TABLE Fishery statistic Grenada & Grenadines St. Lucia St. Vincent & Grenadines 660 275 397 558 Barbados Inshore Catch (tonncs) Effort (10'Hp-days) 302 527 1357 101X CPUE (tonncs per 10' Hp-days) 2.0R 0.38 0.27 0.51 Offshore Catch (tonncs) 745 549 204 3211 E!Tort ( 1O' Hp-days) 815 1254 6445 2255 CPUE (tonncs per l!l-' l-Ip-days) O.S4 0.47 0.29 1.34 TABLE 4.2 Percentage change in catch, effort, catch per unit area, and catch per unit effort of four countries in the south-eastern Caribbean, 19R0-1999 Grenada & Grenadines Fishery statistic St. Lucia St. Vincent & Grenadines Barbados Inshore Catch ( tonncs) -12 +36 +64 +16 Effort ( 10' Hp-days) +42 +133 +4 +134 CPUE (tonnes per I O' Hp-days) -3X -24 +58 -71 +129 +143 -29 +36 +598 +513 +170 +339 -67 -65 -52 -69 Offshore Catch (tonncs) Effort (I 0 l-Ip-days) 3 CPUE (tonncs per I01 l-Ip-days) and its associated islands. This was despite a 42'Yo increase in fishing effort. While inshore catches in the fisheries of St. Lucia and Barbados increased by 36%, ami 16"/t,, respectively, the corresponding CPUE declined by 24%, and 71 per cent. Of the four island states examined, only St. Vincent and the Grenadines experienced an increase in CPUE for inshore waters (58%,). This increase might be explained by two li1ctors: changes in the areas lavoured by lishing boats, such as would occur with the targeting of previously uncxploited stocks in deeper waters; and improved data collection systems in the Grenadines, where most catches arc taken from the shelf and slope areas. However, these reasons remain to be verified. Many governments in the Eastern Caribbean, laced with the over-exploited state of inshore lisheries and the increasing need for food security, have promoted development of the o!Tshore lishery, targeting large pelagic species such as tuna, through the provision of loans and other incentives. The data assembled for this study suggest that the increases in o!Tshorc catches between 1980 ami 1999 (36% to 143%) were Jhr outweighed by the cmTesponding increases in lishing eflort to produce such catches (339% to 598'!-'o). The CPUE declined substnntially in the offshore fisheries of ench of the four countries (by a range of between 52% and 69%). -44-