Three Bays Protected Area (Parc Marin des Trois Baies) — Co-Managed Marine Reserve, Northeast Haiti

Haiti's Three Bays Protected Area (Parc Marin des Trois Baies, PA3B), on the northeast coast near Cap-Haïtien, was created by presidential decree on 21 March 2014 and covers 75,406 hectares, making it the country's second-largest protected area. Classified IUCN Category IV, it spans fringing and barrier coral reefs, seagrass beds, mangrove forests, deep-water habitat and coastal dry tropical forest, and is described by assessors as containing some of the most extensive and healthiest reef and mangrove systems remaining in Haiti.
The park's boundaries trace back to outlining work the NGO FoProBiM began in 2000, followed by ecosystem valuation studies in 2009 and a 2013 re-evaluation carried out for the Organization of American States' Department of Sustainable Development. PA3B is jointly run by Haiti's national protected-areas agency, ANAP (Agence Nationale des Aires Protégées), and FoProBiM, with additional support from The Nature Conservancy and funding from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. A management plan covering 2017–2027 sets out zoning and community-engagement rules for the surrounding fishing communities.
Despite its protected status and the exceptional condition of its reef habitat, FoProBiM's own reporting describes the area as still extremely overfished by surrounding communities, reflecting Haiti's high coastal poverty and constrained enforcement capacity. No published, quantified trend in fish biomass or reef cover is yet available, so the evidence supporting this practice remains descriptive rather than measured — a genuine gap between formal protection and demonstrated ecological recovery.

Read the full analysis: http://www.oas.org/en/sedi/nl/0114/2_en.html