80% Drop in Bahamian Conch Threatens Livelihood of 9000 Fishermen
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Tribune Business Editor] By NEIL HARTNELL - December 19, 2017
The livelihoods of more than 9,000 Bahamian fishermen and their families are under threat from the 80 percent conch population decline since the 1980s, it has been revealed.
An Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report, accompanying a $500,000 project to enhance 'community-based conch management' in the Family Islands, warned that overfishing and environmental degradation were making fishing "economically unviable for many.
It added that the reduced conch population was also impacting a key source of food security and foreign currency...
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