Fishers Alliance Makes Conch Protect Proposals
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ Ellington] By NATARIO McKENZIE - December 20,2017
A ban on conch exports could stem the Bahamas' conch population decline, the Commercial Fishers Alliance's (BCFA) president yesterday disputing the reported 80 per cent fall.
Adrian LaRoda told Tribune Business that such a ban was one of several proposals put forward by the BCFA, while citing illegal conch harvesting methods by foreign poachers and increased coastal development as the most significant contributors to population decline.
He was responding after an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report warned that the livelihoods of more...
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