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…
Reprinted from Slate magazine. The Worst Marine Invasion Ever I could not believe what I found inside a lionfish. By Christie Wilcox|Posted Monday, July 1, 2013, at 7:00 AM A lionfish in an aquarium Photo by Alexander Klein/AFP/Getty Images “Do you…
This weekend: The St James Club, Mamora Bay Divers and The Antigua Conservation Society have collaborated to come up with the first organized lionfish hunt on Sunday June 2nd in an effort to bring awareness to this problem and to…
One of the things that makes this country so unique is the size of the shallow water shelf the islands sit on. So many other islands nearby have very small shelfs with the sea falling off the shelf into the…
Three Adventure Antigua captains go fishing and win a tournament with help from Captain JD’s dad Kit. Was a fun day off last saturday in the Francis Nunes Sr. Memorial Fishing Tournament. We cleaned up winning biggest fish caught, biggest…
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…
Several years ago I blogged that the lionfish were probably here already (read here) and there is now no doubt that they were. Within two years we are getting reports from around the island of Antigua of lionfish sightings. In…
Change.org|The Proven Petition Site We were on the radio again yesterday. Here is some of what Marine Biologist, John Mussington had to say as reported today in the Daily Observer: Over-fishing in Barbuda could affect economy By By Tameika Malone…
netted parrotfish by the thousands taken from the reefs In the past five days 1400 people have signed a petition to the Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda. The petition has been organized by The Antigua Conservation Society and asks…
Two weekends ago Adventure Antigua sent a team and one of our boats to the annual Antigua Sport Fishing Tournament. Team Xtreme was fishing in the Marlin division. We had a very good team and were well prepared. In fact…