They having overfished their own seas, depleting their own stock of economically valuable marine resources. Although Jamaican waters are the most overfished in the region in terms of finfish, Jamaica has the largest remaining stock of conch in the world, and still quite a bit of lobster left on our offshore banks. Our local consumption of conch and lobster (which we can collectively refer to as shellfish) is quite small and, as a result, we still have commercial quantities of these marine resources in our waters. It is our shellfish stock that is attracting the Hondurans.

This is not a small man’s game, conducted by ‘sufferers’ trying to earn ‘a bread’; it is big business involving substantial capital investment by quite wealthy people. The divers are Miskito Indians, expendable small fry to the owners, but the boat captain and engineer are in a different class…continue article from the Jamaican Gleaner.