{"id":12135,"date":"2011-09-22T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2011-09-22T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:29:49","slug":"bahamians-caught-with-undersized-crawfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/bahamians-caught-with-undersized-crawfish","title":{"rendered":"Bahamians Caught With Under-Sized Crawfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several fishermen are expected to be charged with possession of undersized crawfish after fisheries and defence force officials intercepted their vessels in waters off West End.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Fisheries Superintendent based in Abaco, Carroll Laing, said a routine patrol was being carried out by officers when they came upon a boat some three miles southeast of Memory Rock. The officers conducted a search of the vessel and discovered approximately 61 crawfish, 25 of which were undersized and two of which were egg bearing.<\/p>\n<p>The men on-board were placed under arrest and as the officers were on their way to the Old Bahama Bay Resort in West End to deliver them to the police, they intercepted a second boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several local fishermen intercepted off West End face charges for possession of undersized crawfish &#8211;  an illegal, unscrupulous practice that is seriously harming the fishing industry. Unfortunately, they will probably just get a slap on the wrist.<\/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":[12],"tags":[76,81,49],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-environment-2","tag-grand-bahama","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","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=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}