Change mindsets; raise awareness with a targeted drive towards
education at all levels:
• Make fishermen aware of benefits to them of new approaches.
• Educate tourists on ecologically responsible behavior.
• Bring the marine environment into school curricula.
• Give journalists compelling, science-based "stories."
• Target government and industry decision-makers using economic arguments.

Use the available science:
• Encourage regional analysis of existing datasets.
• Provide further training for Caribbean scientists and managers.
• Pursue basic research in some high-priority remote areas.

Improve management systems:
• Disseminate examples like the Soufriere Marine Management Area in St Lucia and the Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize that demonstrate effective management improving both local livelihoods and biodiversity protection.
• Implement more - and more effective - protected areas.
• Include full stakeholder participation.
• Consider local ownership of nearshore fisheries assets as a management approach.
• Set targets: include 30% of nearshore habitats within no-take zones; install mooring buoys at all commercial dive sites and yacht anchorages; raise sewage treatment to 90%.
• Establish park user fees to support management efforts.
• Initiate active interventions where ecosystem function requires restoration.
• Include innovative approaches for industrial involvement; balance punitive measures (polluter pays: or -zero net loss- approaches) with positive incentives.

Work Internationally:
• Encourage and support multi-lateral governance approaches.
• Build up regional capacity through training and support of programs in poor or small nations.