Pres­i­dent of the All To­ba­go Fish­er­folk As­so­ci­a­tion (AT­FA), Cur­tis Dou­glas, is call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, hop­ing the new ad­min­is­tra­tion will fi­nal­ly end what he de­scribed as decades of il­le­gal fish­ing in To­ba­go’s wa­ters.

In No­vem­ber 2023, a del­e­ga­tion from Bar­ba­dos and To­ba­go, on the in­struc­tion of then prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley, held a vir­tu­al dis­cus­sion on con­cerns raised by To­ba­go fish­er­men. They claimed their Bar­ba­di­an coun­ter­parts were over­fish­ing fly­ing fish.

Con­tin­ued di­a­logue was agreed up­on and a de­ci­sion was tak­en for both sides to en­ter in­to ne­go­ti­a­tion for a new Fish­ing Agree­ment in the fu­ture.