CAMAC’s phase 1 focused on building partnerships and defining the scientific protocols. The partners involved during this phase were: the Agoa Sanctuary, as project leader, the SPAW RAC (Regional Activity Centre for the Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife of the Wider Caribbean Region), and the NGO Haiti Ocean Project. 

By the end of 2023, 96 people from 72 organisations and 35 territories/countries, were cooperating on CAMAC.

CAMAC1 closing workshop : 

Work package 1 aimed at quantifying the interactions between marine megafauna and fisheries in the Caribbean, assessing their impacts and identifying mitigation solutions: 

• 28 experts from 21 territories were involved in the working group,

• that gathered around 20 meetings,

• to finally provide a regional synthesis on fisheries interactions, and a report on the distributions of the Hawksbill Sea Turtle in the Western Atlantic.

Work package 2 aspired to strengthen stranding networks for marine mammals and sea turtles; by developing stranding monitoring, harmonizing analyses of collected data and biological samples at the regional level and ultimately, by enhancing knowledge on human impacts:

• 40 experts were involved in the marine mammal stranding group and 100 people were trained and received a few months later stranding kits;

• over 50 experts gathered to form a sea turtle stranding group;

• Together they worked and agreed on a regional protocol to follow in case of stranding.

Work package 3 worked toward raising awareness by disseminating regional megafauna educational tools, and by reaching schools' involvement through twinning programs. By the end of 2023: 

• CAMACATA’s catalog was published, referencing 90 educational tools from the whole caribbean;

• 8 territories were approached to host the future school twinning program.

Work package 4 targeted Caribbean marine megafauna knowledge enhancement; by fostering regional scientific monitoring, by developing knowledge on megafauna diversity; density and distribution; and by identifying hotspots of interaction with activities. After 10 months of intense work: 

• a marine mammal and seabirds working group of 47 experts has been constituted;

• 52 shark experts were consulted;

• over 7 workshops and consultations; 

• led to a bibliographic review about elasmobranch in the Caribbean, coupled with an action plan for phase 2, and a report on marine mammals and seabirds, proposing survey methods, priority areas to investigate and a work plan for phase 2.