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Last Updated: Dec 29, 2011 - 2:18:31 AM |
Dear
Editor:
I am an avid reader of your weekly columns, and will now ask your
assistance to helping to assist in the conservation of our crawfish
stocks just like you and others are doing for the sharks.
There is a closed season on harvesting crawfish (our Panularus argus) to
which many fishermen and unscrupulous restaurants pay no attention.
The Fisheries Department allows Restaurants to sell lobster meals during
the closed season if they can say that they had them in stock. Or get
this, the big wholesalers are able to sell lobster during the closed
season.
There was an advertisement in the newspaper to that
effect. So what do the local fishermen do? Go out, harvest illegal crawfish and sell them to the restaurants.
Another law that they always break is taking undersized crawfish, and “berried” females (with eggs), clip and cut up the little tails and sell them as crawfish meat.
All the above is illegal and is well known to all the Fisheries management, but they sit behind their desks, draw their monthly pay and would not even publish the penalties for breaking the fisheries laws and regulations.
Many people are behind the conservation of sharks – all well and good. but let’s do something about saving our crawfish industry too.
Sincerely,
Harold “Sonny” Waugh,
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island.
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