The Agoa sanctuary, intended for marine mammals in the French West Indies, is a marine protected area. Saint-Martin will host the next management council, made up of 53 members representing Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Northern Islands, at the beginning of November.
Amandine Eynaudi, delegate from the Marine Protected Areas Agency, presented the Agoa sanctuary to the press in the premises of the Tourist Office last month. “The sanctuary management board represents different categories of users. It becomes a parliament of the sea which takes decisions with regard to this marine protected area for the protection of marine mammals ”, she explains. The management council took place on May 21 at Fort-de-France in Martinique. The president, the three vice-presidents and the members of the bureau were elected on this occasion. The island of Saint-Martin is represented in force by the vice-president of the Collectivity Ramona Connor, the president of Métimer Bulent Gulay, the director of the Tourist Office Kate Richardson and the director of the Natural reserve Nicolas Maslach, specifies Romain Renoux, responsible for regional cooperation at the Saint-Martin Nature Reserve, Agoa North Islands correspondent, adding that this sanctuary is “a tool for concertation and sustainable development for our territory”.
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