SP 9 years, 1 month ago on Mandatory guides push threatens 80% of fly fishing impact
Mandatory guides push threatens 80% of fly fishing impact
Foreign vessel operators bring their own white guides and cut local guides out!
Ellison “Tommy” Thompson conveniently disingenuously omitted to mention that NO ONE goes fly fishing without a guide of some sort, as one cannot effectively fish and simultaneously maneuver a boat.
Truth is, foreign operators bring their own very highly paid white fly fishing guides from Florida, disenfranchising Bahamians from profiting from their own natural resource.
The question really should be "how to regulate the industry to benefit Bahamians more than foreigners"?
As always, we have a natural resource over-run by big money foreign interest and government apathy towards Bahamians getting a fair share of a pie they are supposed to own.
SP 9 years, 1 month ago on Mandatory guides push threatens 80% of fly fishing impact
Mandatory guides push threatens 80% of fly fishing impact
................................................ Horseshit ...............................................
Scant few if any people arrive in any destination and take off by themselves. Majority of individuals fly fishing use guides who know the flats and best places to fish.
Although already illegal for foreigners to work here without work permits, there is no infrastructure in place to police these people, so they have gotten accustomed to outwitting the dumb Bahamians.
To be clear, I have tremendous hate for foreigners coming here disenfranchising Bahamians from income rightfully theirs.
We cannot roll into Florida and do as we want. Similarly they should not be allowed to do so here.
Bahamians MUST HAVE the first opportunity to benefit from resources derived from our own country!
SP 9 years, 1 month ago on Mandatory guides push threatens 80% of fly fishing impact
Mandatory guides push threatens 80% of fly fishing impact
............................. Flocking to Cuba is pipe dream ..............................
The new law just passed in Cuba states ANYONE wanting to do business in Cuba MUST HAVE A CUBAN PARTNER!
Cuba WILL NOT allow the Florida based boat hotels and foreigners to get away with the nonsense they do here.
The U.S. cruise ship industry had a rude awakening recently when Cuba TOLD THEM what the deal will be if they want to cruise to Cuba. High landing and departure taxes and a linty of other fees far surpassing anything these incompetent clowns in Bahamas dare even dream about.
Obie Welchcombe is a clown in an idiots suit. Both PLP and FNM have done such an incompetent job at maintaining Bahamas cruise ports that the cruise ship industry dictates what they will and will not do. 50% of departure taxes must be returned to cruise companies to compensate for inadequacies of the port.