{"id":247467,"date":"2005-08-02T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/08\/fishermen-warned-to-obey-rules-as-crawfish-season-opens"},"modified":"2005-08-02T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T15:24:25","slug":"fishermen-warned-to-obey-rules-as-crawfish-season-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/08\/fishermen-warned-to-obey-rules-as-crawfish-season-opens","title":{"rendered":"Fishermen Warned To Obey Rules As Crawfish Season Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, V. Alfred Gray, urged fishermen to observe all of the rules and regulations or face prosecution.<br \/>\n<P>As in previous years, the Department of Fisheries is gearing up to fight poachers and illegal fishing.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that most poachers are commercial fishermen, primarily from the Dominican Republic, who habitually fish in the southern Bahamas.  The maximum penalty is a fine of up to $50,000 or a one-year term in prison&#8230; or both.<\/p>\n<p>The Department is warning against the trapping of undersized crustaceans and the use of unlicensed apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>All crawfish caught must be at least five-and-a-half inches in tail length and three-and-one-quarter inches in jacket length.<\/p>\n<p>Fishermen who are interested in using air compressors and traps to harvest lobsters need to obtain a permit from the Department of Fisheries.  Compressors can only legally be used between the depths of 30 and 60 feet of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crawfish season opened yesterday after a four-month ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-247467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247467","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}