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Nassau.– Members of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force apprehended another Dominican fishing vessel, which was illegally fishing in Bahamian waters.
According to a release from the RBDF, a Dominican-registered fishing vessel with ten persons on board, was apprehended in the southern Bahamas on Thursday afternoon for violation of the Fisheries Act.
While on patrol, the HMBS Bahamas stopped a 45-foot Dominican fishing vessel 12 miles southeast of the Guinchos Cay. A further investigation of the vessel by the officers allegedly uncovered an estimated 2,400 pounds of assorted scale fish.
The crew members are being escorted to the capital and are expected to arrive today at 9 p.m. This latest arrest marks the second for the year that Defence Force officers apprehended a Dominican fishing vessel.
In March, a 100-foot Dominican vessel with a crew of 11 were apprehended for allegedly poaching some 22 miles off Cay Lobos. Those men were charged in a Magistrate's Court for that offense.
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Having fished out their own waters ages ago, Dominicans and Haitians turned to the Bahamian waters for their sources of fish. At one time there were some 12 fishing boats running out of Manzanillo for this purpose. Each of these boats would bring in some RD150,000 to RD$300,000 per trip, so it ws a very lucrative venture. However after several of thelarger boats were confiscated, the owners heavily fined along with the crews, then the practice dropped considerably. That and the fact that the Bahamians who were warning these boats when a BCG boats were dispatched were apprehended and jailed.
Goes to show one that Stealing the property and assets of others is not such a good thing after all.
TB
unless we conquer it@! :)
Those are the real theives the Domincan Navy and all their colonels and generals busy lining their pockets while they look the other way as the boats slip out to poach.
TB
Already reported when we repatriated 8 fishermen, but they were released the next day by the Dominican Navy in Puerto Plata because the crime was commited in the Bahamas.
I'm not being snide by my request above.
It is a know fact that the local Navy personnel are in cahoots with the fishermen who go out to pilfer the fish of other countries ( The Bahamas).
Were the Dominicans a nation of law abiding citizens, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.
I am frustrated daily by this "me first" propencity of people to totally disregard the law and to make excuses for the rampant malfeasance of their govrnment officials. They seem to think of it as amassive joke and actually support these conditions in hopes that some of the robbery will rub off on themselves.
TB
Yes, it is an ongoing saga which will continue into the future until Dominicans decide it is too expensive to continue the practice.
The cost of a liscense is much less than the cost of the fines, loss of the ship, and bailing out the crews. The ship owners just are trying to maximize their profits and"put the blame on Mame, boys".
Same song, different verse.
TB