2018/19 Budget Communication 2018_2019 BUDGET COMMUNICATION | Page 54

available resources.
In
phase
three,
activities
will
center
on
communication campaigns to promote the findings from the
studies, and awareness campaigns between the public and
private stakeholders that will support the creation of
networks and communities with the stakeholders. In
addition, a monitoring and evaluation system with indicators
regarding the sectors performance will be developed.
Within the Bahamas’ Blue Economy, there has been
considerable public dialogue for years on the question of the
extent to which the country is maximizing its potential
financial and economic yield from its fisheries stock, its salt
mines, and its deposits of aragonite. This diagnostic study
will examine these and other Blue Economy opportunities
empirically and dispassionately; the study and attendant
51