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Melia Nassau Beach Does It Again-Supports Local Fishermen
It started with sweet potatoes, onions and peppers, expanded to soursop and limes...
Fishermen's Fest this weekend
Fishermen's Fest this weekend
This year's 4th Annual Fishermen's Fest will be held in Spanish Wells this weekend.
FISHERMEN FACE GROWING THREAT
FISHERMEN FACE GROWING THREAT
By NATARIO
McKENZIE
Tribune Business Reporter
nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net
THE Bahamas' fishing industry is facing a new threat, Tribune Business was told yesterday, with fishermen alleging that some Bahamian boat owners are employing Dominicans to fish in this nation's waters.
While poaching by Dominican fishermen has long been considered the greatest single threat to the Bahamas' fishing indu...
Fishermen help to catch 130 Haitian immigrants
Fishermen help to catch 130 Haitian immigrants
POLICE and local fishermen in Ragged Island picked up more than 130 Haitian immigrants moments before they landed Sunday evening...
Gray pushes for sale of confiscated vessels to fishermen
Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister V. Alfred Gray wants the government to sell the vessels that were seized during arrests on the high seas to local fishermen.
Over the years, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) has arrested scores of suspected poachers and as a result apprehended their fishing vessels.
Gray said the government ought to sell the boats and engines, if it does not intend t...
'Fishermen have right to firearms'
'Fishermen have right to firearms'
BY LAW, every Bahamian fisherman has the right to carry arms on the high seas in order to protect themselves from Dominican poachers, Elizabeth MP Ryan Pinder said yesterday.
Fishermen's bounty enjoyed at Romora Bay
Fishermen angered over minister's comments on guns
Fishermen angered over minister's comments on guns
LOCAL fishermen were outraged yesterday when Agriculture and Fisheries Minister V Alfred Gray said he would not support arming them with guns as protection on the high seas against Dominican poachers...
Fishermen save U.S. man's life
Fishermen save U.S. man's life
AN AMERICAN boater got a first-hand taste of Bahamian hospitality when a group of fishermen saved his life after his boat hit a damaged lighthouse near Eleuthera.