{"id":27821,"date":"2012-11-08T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27821"},"modified":"2012-11-08T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:34:51","slug":"higher-fine-and-jail-time-for-poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/higher-fine-and-jail-time-for-poachers","title":{"rendered":"Higher Fine And Jail Time For Poachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27825\" title=\"fishing-poaching\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fishing-poaching.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fishing-poaching.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fishing-poaching-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Bahamas needs tougher laws against poaching. Operators of foreign vessels caught poaching in Bahamian waters should receive fines as high as $250,000 and\/or 25 years imprisonment &#8211; this would act as a strong deterrent to the illegal activity, said the Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Local Government V. Alfred Gray.<\/p>\n<p>The fine for poachers does not exceed $5,000 under the current law.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Bahamian delegation held discussions with the Dominican Republic government in Santo Domingo over Dominican fishermen poaching in Bahamian waters and future commerce opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican minister responsible proposed that all licensed fishing vessels be equipped with devices to track and monitor their activities.<\/p>\n<p>While it is unclear as to the dollar value the country loses to poaching annually, officials have estimated that the figure stands in the multimillions annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas needs tougher laws against poaching to deter the illegal activity. Fines as high as $250,000 and\/or 25 years imprisonment have been proposed.<\/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":[100,39,307],"class_list":["post-27821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-fishing","tag-illegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27821","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=27821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}