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July 29, 2014
Melia Nassau Beach Does It Again-Supports Local Fishermen

It started with sweet potatoes, onions and peppers, expanded to soursop and limes...

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July 17, 2014
Fishermen's Fest this weekend

This year's 4th Annual Fishermen's Fest will be held in Spanish Wells this weekend.

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October 24, 2011
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...

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April 22, 2014
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...

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February 26, 2014
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...

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February 21, 2014
'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.

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February 13, 2014
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...

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December 21, 2013
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.

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