{"id":2144,"date":"2010-09-17T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:24:23","slug":"defence-force-officers-aiding-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/defence-force-officers-aiding-poachers","title":{"rendered":"Defence Force Officers Aiding Poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Spokesperson for the Bahamas Commercial  Fishers Alliance Adrian La-Roda says several Defence Force officers are  helping Honduran and Dominican fisherman poach in Bahamian waters.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">In fact, he said Defence Force and National Security Ministry officials have been investigating this matter for months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not afraid to say that, because it\u2019s true. We  are very close to finding out who they are. We have some idea . . . the  investigation has been going on for more than four months,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I  don\u2019t know why these persons don\u2019t cease and desist because they must  know they are being investigated. The term we use all the time is that  they are very brazen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have met with the commodore of the Defence Force  and other persons within the Defence Force, including the minister of  national security [Tommy Turnquest] and they are actively [taking steps  to correct] some of the things we\u2019ve been complaining about. It\u2019s a bit  sensitive for us. Poaching is a serious issue for us. It is not as hard a  fix as people think. All it requires is consistent and tough measures,  that\u2019s all, and the problem could be done away with in short order. I  believe we will always have poachers, but not to the level that we\u2019ve  had in the past six years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Wells fishermen have long complained about Honduran and Dominican fishermen poaching in Bahamian waters.<\/p>\n<p>Local fishermen particularly dislike the fact that  those fishermen attempt to overfish Bahamian waters and do not observe  closed seasons.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson for the Bahamas Commercial Fishers Alliance Adrian La-Roda says several Defence Force officers are helping Honduran and Dominican fisherman poach in Bahamian waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[93,76,39],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-environment-2","tag-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}