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Sweeping plans to develop the island’s maritime economy with a conservation model potentially protecting 20 per cent of Bermuda’s exclusive waters go for a final public meeting tomorrow at the West End. Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, remind...

A marine conservation plan met more opposition from the island’s fishermen last night in the latest public forum to discuss the plan. But the meeting on the proposed Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme also heard that 18 projects have been highlighted...

Dear Sir, Please allow me this opportunity to comment on the Government’s Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme proposal. This consists of two documents covering a variety of topics relating to economics and use of the marine environment. The one area ...

Plans to safeguard a portion of Bermuda’s exclusive waters are modest compared with what Britain might impose if the island fails to act, home affairs minister Walter Roban has warned. Mr Roban spoke after the Government’s “Blue Prosperity” marine co...

OK, it is decision time! For many the conundrum starts now and the fate of domestic bliss may hang in the balance. To fish or not to fish or, more accurately, to put the boat into mothballs for yet another year. Whether you believe it or not, the bes...

The wait is over for lovers of local lobsters, as the 2022-23 season opens from tomorrow until the end of next March. But a decline in numbers of the local Caribbean spiny lobster, whose population has been hit by the loss of seagrass habitats, means...

If anyone has any mal-de-mare-based qualms as to taking a sortie on the briny, well, it doesn’t get much calmer than this. Sometimes referred to as the doldrums and often associated with sailing ships being becalmed for weeks. The poem The Rime of th...

Teamwork between Bermuda and the United States Coast Guard is growing beyond cracking down on illegal fishing in the island’s water, according to US Consul General Karen Grissette. The partnership is to expand in the areas of search and rescue, law e...

Had enough of billfish yet? The excitement of the Cup Match holiday should have gone some way to relieving those woes, although it may have resurrected others from the more fervent supporters of both teams. In any case, things do wind down a bit now ...

An environmental charity has called on the public to keep watch for a high-tech device that broke off drifting fishing equipment that washed ashore at the West End. Part of a floating “fish aggregation device” or FAD, used to catch tuna and other ope...

People are being asked to be “conscientious and environmentally responsible” when disposing of fish waste after recent reports of scraps getting dumped on roadsides. Waste and excess bait from locally caught fish can be discarded at sea, the Departme...

Anglers and commercial fishermen have breathed a sigh of relief as the offshore grounds have almost totally returned to normal. The odd longtail is never a problem, but that invasion of shearwaters is a horror at best. Happily, it is now possible to ...