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

In 2022, fol­low­ing a re­gion­al crime sym­po­sium, it was re­port­ed that for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley raised the mat­ter with Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley. Both lead­ers agreed to pur­sue dis­cus­sions through their re­spec­tive fish­eries de­part­ments. How­ev­er, To­ba­go’s fish­er­men say noth­ing has changed on the ground.

Dou­glas is now de­mand­ing ac­tion from the new Gov­ern­ment to pro­tect To­ba­go’s ma­rine re­sources.