Post meetings

1st meeting

The meeting commenced at 2023-07-21 10.35

Chairperson - Ms. June Masters (Statistics and Information analyst CRFM)

Number of Participants – 13, see participants list at Annex 1

Name of the Event

First follow-up online meeting to the

FISHERIES ASSESSMENT AND DATA MODELLING

CARIBBEAN SHORT COURSE. Held in Barbados 21-27 June 2023
Date of first post online meeting 21 July 2021
Time 10.30 – 12:30 pm
Main Organizer(s) CRFM Secretariat and Derrick Theophille (Fisheries Div., Dominica)
Contact Person June Masters @ and Derrick Theophille |
Main objectives
  • To follow-up on, and continue training CARICOM fisheries staff “R” Trainers, in the use of “R” for Fisheries Assessment and Data Modelling. This meeting is follow-up to the Caribbean short course in “R” held in Barbados 21-27 June 2023
Information shared

Meeting Agenda

  1. Overview of the first 3 chapters of the text “R for Data Science” – Question and answer session.

  2. Presentation by Makeba Felix (St. Lucia Fisheries Division) - Question and answer session.

  3. Any other questions from intersessional work

  4. Next steps – Date of next meeting; assigning an intersessional task; creating an agenda for the next meeting.
Summary of presentations and outcome

Summary /Outcomes:

  • Overview of 3 chapters – A short rundown and scroll through of some of the important concepts found in each chapter was provided by the chairperson and Dr. Parida. This was followed by a question-and-answer period. The importance of reading the text was reiterated.

  • Ms. Felix presented Generating Maps in R. The presentation is on the website.

  • Next steps - Date of next meeting 21 August 2023; Starting to use R in our everyday reporting - an intersessional task – each participant will look at his or her work programme and select a task that is a regular occurrence and something which must be produced whether on a monthly or quarterly or yearly basis. We would like to start using R to produce this report or document etc. We want to start to put in place R scripts for maybe a portion (eg the graphs associated with the report) or an entire report that is needed. Each person will say what they have come up with at the next meeting.

Agenda for the next meeting.

  • Presentation from the Communications Consultant CRFM

  • Overview of chapter 4 and 5 of R for Data Science

  • Discussion on intersessional task

  • Discussion on GitHub

ANNEX 1. PARTICIPANTS LIST

Country Name Present
1 Belize Arlenie Rogers. University of Belize Present
2 Grenada Cherene Bowen, Data Management Officer – Fisheries Division Present
3 Guyana Seion Britton – Fisheries Division Present
4 Jamaica Anginette Murray, Statistics and Data Manager, Fisheries Authority. Present
5 St. Kitts and Nevis Andrea Browne (Oceanography and GIS Officer with responsibility for data) Present
6 St Kitts and Nevis Venrick Newton (Fisheries Officer) - Nevis Present
7 St. Lucia Makeba Felix Fisheries Biologist, Fisheries Dept. Present
8 St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Cheryl Jardine

Fisheries Officer, Fisheries Div.

 Present
9 Trinidad and Tobago

Janelle Daniel

Sr. Fisheries Researcher, Fisheries Div.

 Present
10 CRFM Secretariat Sandra Grant Deputy Executive Director Present
11 CRFM Secretariat June Masters Statistics and Information Analyst Present
12 CRFM Secretariat Pranaya Parida, Fisheries Present
13 GRO-FTP (Iceland) Einar Hjörleifsson, Fisheries scientist Present