![]() ![]() The following is the latest draft of the document produced by the BFFIA, Nassau, Bahamas. Beware.Ī few of the recommendations are commendable: No commercial fishing on the flats, fishing license requirement, foreign mothership rules and protection of flats dwellers: tarpon, permit, snook and sting-rays. Nothing well thought through there, preferring instead a marriage to nationalism and populism.Īlso, BFFIA rules would burden a second home owner who likes to fish the flats and owns a skiff. The BFFIA rules do not recognize the contributions of the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust and others in the scientific community that have and do aid the Bahamas in protecting its flats fisheries. ![]() The rules proposals are draped with scholar-less conservation arguments that fail at hiding intentions The BFFIA proposed new limited access rules are a see through way of hindering it all together, and of course, it’s expensive. If the proposed BFFIA flats regulations are assented to by those in high offices it would all but end DIY flats fishing for foreigners. It strikes memory that the proposed regs have Pindling-like nostalgia with selfie wishes written all through it. The “official” position of the Bahamas Fly Fishing Industry Association (BFFIA), the group running things for the Bahamas’ proposed flats regulations, expresses more than a hint of anti-foreigner sentiment. ![]()
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