Terra Mar Museum

This report aims to assess historical fisheries in the Caribbean Netherlands since the first inhabitants started exploiting the sea around them. In doing so, WWF-The Netherlands seeks to understand how fisheries and fishing traditions have influenced the marine ecosystem in the past, and hence what this ecosystem may have looked like before the start of marine resource exploitation. We hope that this will provide a more realistic view of the variations and impacts on baseline perspectives, and thus more effective targets to aim for in policies and plans for the future.