The Barbados Marine Trust [BMT] has been placing reef balls in the sea off the South Coast of Barbados in an effort to support coral reef regeneration and as well as to provide habitats for fishes and other marine animals- [thus ensuring bio-diversity] - and to protect the shoreline from climate change. While the reef balls are generally successful in this way, they tend to be exploited/overfished/undermined by fisherfolk in much the same way that natural reefs have been. Recognising the need for support for alternative livelihoods for fisherfolk, the BMT is now proposing to use sculptures as has been successfully done in Grenada, where local fishermen provide water taxi services out to the sculpture sites to tourists, and thus giving the fisherfolk a sense of ownership/desire to protect them for their own long term gains.

This planning grant seeks to develop a project on an undersea Heritage Musuem in Barbados.