The creatures which many scientists say are responsible for causing the biggest environmental disaster the Atlantic has ever seen will be targeted again this month when The Antigua Conservation Society and St. James Club’s Mamora Bay Divers organize their third…
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…
Change.org|The Proven Petition Site A few of my friends who have been campaigning for the environment for a very long time started an organization called the Antigua Conservation Society Inc. in the hope that we could play a more active…
The Antigua Conservation Society has launched it’s facebook page www.facebook.com/AntiguaConservationSociety in in less than 12 hours overnight has attracted 60 members. They will be primarily an awareness and activist group highlighting strengths, weaknesses and threats along our coastal environment. The…
Over the past month there has been considerable media attention on the subject of certain Chinese businessmen orchestrating a massive monthly purchase and export of spiny lobster. (Click here if you want to know more about spiny lobster) In a…