The Fisheries Department has known for years about the practice of gill netting for parrotfish (chub fish) along barrier reefs in Antigua and Barbuda and over the past few months has recognized it as not only being unsustainable but damaging…
As many readers of my blogs know, the 2006 Fisheries Act has been sitting languishing with the Minister of Fisheries, waiting for him to sign off on the accompanying regulations. While awaiting this evasive signature, unsustainable fishing methods continue to…