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title: Empowering Women through new markets for Invasive Lionfish Jewelry
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## Empowering Women through new markets for Invasive Lionfish Jewelry

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Blue Ventures, a Sarteneja based organization, focusing on lionfish jewelry, held a presentation in San Pedro on Tuesday, June 9th at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve office. The presentation was aimed at introducing the skill to six island women. Disadvantaged women from fishing families were shown how to make lionfish jewelry that can be sold to tourists and earn an extra income.

[Read full article >>](http://www.sanpedrosun.com/business-and-economy/2015/06/19/empowering-women-through-new-markets-for-invasive-lionfish-jewelry/)

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