{"id":10784,"date":"2011-08-04T08:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10784"},"modified":"2011-08-04T08:41:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:41:13","slug":"restaurants-perpetuate-illegal-crawfish-catches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/restaurants-perpetuate-illegal-crawfish-catches","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants Perpetuate Illegal Crawfish Catches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crawfish season reopened on Monday, but fishermen who employ underhanded tactics to harvest the crustacean out of season continue to strain the resources of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.<\/p>\n<p>Catching the culprits is particularly difficult Campbell said because they like to operate during the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>He lays the blame for the high level of out of season catches squarely at the feet of restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that stiffer penalties should be put in place to deter fishermen from harvesting crawfish out of season and deter restaurants from buying the seafood when the season is closed.<\/p>\n<p>He further suggested that perhaps the closed season for crawfish needs to be extended beyond four months.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, the season is opened for eight months from August 1 to March 31 and closed from April 1 to July 31.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell however, said the crawfish season should be closed for six months and opened for six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crawfish season reopened on Monday, but fishermen who employ underhanded tactics to harvest the crustacean out of season continue to strain the resources of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63,76,39,23,49,94,79],"class_list":["post-10784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-animals","tag-environment-2","tag-fishing","tag-food","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-marine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}