Belize City, Belize - A United States petition submitted this March to list the Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) as a threatened or endangered species, the status of the implementation of a common fisheries policy for CARICOM, and the joint action plan and Belize Declaration signed this September in the historic joint meeting of Central American and Caribbean fisheries Ministers will be priority items on the agenda of the upcoming 3rd Special Meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM)...

Freeport - The harvesting of undersize conch is a serious problem in Grand Bahama - where in a single incident this week more than 300 juvenile specimens were removed from the sea off West End.

Wildearth Guardians describes itself as a nonprofit environmental advocacy organisation that works to protect wildlife, wild places and wild waters in the United States.

Concerns were raised yesterday that the country's main post office could be infested with thousands of rats.