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A fishing industry group has served Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, with a request to discuss “revising the methodology” for a controversial marine conversation plan. The letter from the Fishermen’s Association Bermuda, sent yesterday, sugge...

A government official urged fishermen to “come back to the table” after a major representative group snubbed an offer to join conservation talks. A response to a letter of objection sent out on Thursday by the Fishermen’s Association Bermuda also...

Fishermen have rebuffed an offer to join talks on a conservation plan being drawn up for Bermuda waters and accused government officials of ignoring their views. The Fishermen’s Association Bermuda called for a halt to the drafting of the Bermuda Oce...

In 2019, I wrote an article in RG magazine outlining how the the dramatic rise in the human population was putting severe strain on the global pelagic fishery. Five years later, when you couple this with a local government that has mismanaged our fi...

The team charged with devising a plan to conserve Bermuda’s waters while developing a blue economy is seeking further feedback from the public. The Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme said there were further opportunities for stakeholders to “make th...

A junior minister has claimed that the Government is not responsible for drawing up controversial laws to protect Bermuda’s waters from overfishing. Instead, the senator Lindsay Simmons said that the island’s “colonial status” meant that the Governme...

Dear Sir, I read with great interest your front-page coverage today of threatened legal action by the Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda against the Government, demanding a halt to plans to set up Marine Protection Areas around Bermuda. One fisherma...

The head of a fishermen’s organisation highlighted the importance of collaborative working between the Government and the industry as a war of words continued over marine protection proposals. Allan Bean, the chairman of the Fishermen’s Association B...

No secret deal exists behind Bermuda’s draft marine conservation plans that have drawn the ire of fishermen, the Minister of Home Affairs insisted yesterday. Walter Roban spoke after the Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda threw down the gauntlet on t...

Angry fishermen have threatened the Government with legal action over a sweeping marine conservation strategy they said was hatched in secret. The Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme, unveiled in August, proposes marine protection areas with 20 per ce...

Well, that is it; for sportfishing — another year gone. Back in the day, the Trade Development Board, a forerunner to the Department of Tourism, used to tout that the sportfishing season ran from May through November, but locals are keenly aware that...

Oh, horrors: the Eve of all Hallows is upon us! Having its origins in the Celtic traditions of Samhain and a general understanding that as the days shortened and winter chills started to set in, the separation between their world and the afterlife wa...