Ban transparent nets

THE EDITOR: At present, transparent nets are destroying the fish banks in the waters of Trinidad.

Mr Trevor Sudama granted a reprieve of six months while he was in office under the UNC government and is today still being practised. If no action is taken to ban this type of fishing, we may well be looking to source our fish supplies from abroad. The fish supply has decreased since transparent netting has become popular with the fishermen. Large schools and fish banks are destroyed and only a few large fishes are caught for sale. The smaller fishes are just discarded. This method of fishing destroys all future generations of fish. I feel confident that if transparent net fishing is banned, we can see a return of an abundant fish supply within a couple of years. Please, for the sake of the fishing industry, ban transparent net fishing now.

DIANA SEEBARAN
Cocoyea Village
San Fernando