Fresh local lobster back on menu as season opens
(CNS) The close of the hurricane season and the start of December means that its not only beginning to look a lot like Christmas, local fresh lobster is back on the menu. The lobster season is now open until 29 February and extra day long season because of the leap year in 2024. However, this tasty crustacean is still threatened and fisher-folk are reminded that the daily catch limit is three lobsters per person or six lobsters per boat with two or more people aboard.
Only spiny lobsters with a minimum tail size of 6inches may be taken. No one may take or possess more than three lobsters from Cayman waters.
The department of the environment urged people to respect the Marine Park rules so everyone can continue to dive conch & lobster for generations to come. Download the ‘CaymanDoE’ app for instant access to the Marine Park boundaries and rules wherever you are in the Cayman Islands.
Learn more at www.doe.ky/marine-parks
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Don’t want to divide us as a community even more but shouldn’t we start charging “hunting licenses “ to persons on work permits ? I think most persons would gladly pay if they knew it would go to a good cause such as enforcement of the marine parks or educating the community on conservation. 100kyd a season
Its money making season!
When will we limit conch and lobster harvest to Caymanians only?
When will we ban charter boats from harvesting them?
When will we ban local restaurants from buying local lobster?
Do this and our grand children may have a chance to see what a conch and lobster looks like.
What a pile of bull crap!
Says the greedy expat.
LOL Say that to YOUR government and YOUR locals that do the poaching!!
Is it not enough that you move here and make a very good tax free living, whilst taking jobs from Caymanians? You also need to rape and pillage our marine life?
Sadly, in the last 35 years, it has appeared that we — the born Caymanians are usually the worst offenders. Why? Because we can get away with it, and feel that everything in the sea is ours, just like our forefathers (who almost entirely obliterated the turtles).
It isn’t expats who try to skirt around the Marine Conservation Laws and poach hundreds of Grouper on or near the east ends of every island during their spawning. It isn’t expats who knock on my door with undersized conch and lobster, and it sure as hell isn’t expats who get caught with their car trunks full of fish and shellfish and are back on the street again, two weeks later, not even having the grace to look sheepish.
I’m not denying Caymanians poach marine life, we obviously do. But simultaneously there are too many law abiding expats. It isn’t sustainable to allow everyone to take marine life. We need more enforcement/stiffer penalties and we need to ban non-Caymanians completely.
Caymanians wouldn’t poach if you stopped buying. Supply and demand.
Turtles and Sharks and Sponge and Guano!! We sea-farmed them all out of existence. We ran out of sea life to harvest so we then sold our land for Condos. The shame of our disrespect for mother nature, Cayman land and Seas goes on…. *Sigh
Ahem.. I think you will find it is Caymanians as well …who pillaged all that Conch that was confiscated and donated to Meals on wheels.?
Pot Kettle!
Wrong darlin’.
Buttered Lobster Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes, yum!
And a happy Christmas to you. You cannot possibly be a Christian. I suggest you go forth and multiply
poaching season is open!
lack of enforcement of laws makes it a free for all and disaster for marine life.
just another day in wonderland.
Leviticus 11:12
Leviticus 24:14
“Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then let all the congregation stone him.”
Don’t get me started on trimming our beard ends, or wearing mixed fabrics, or doing work on the Sabbath, or failing to observe burnt offerings, or failing to rotate our crops.
Jesus — if you care — absolved us of most of the ritualistic laws of the Levites — most of which applied to the priesthood.
Jesus Christ told us: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”
Selah.
Selective application of the bible – Standard Christian.
Tit for tat is the way I see it. The person I was responding to was trying to cherrypick Leviticus to demonstrate that we shouldn’t eat lobster at all.
That’s the thing about the Bible. You have to accept it all, or none of it. You can’t just keep the parts that confirm your own bias.
Oh, and I don’t consider “Christian” to be an insult, only the “Standard”, and only that because people like you like to paint with a broad brush — a generalisation — and judge others by your own standards. Generalising is prejudging, because it seeks to cubbyhole EVERYONE of a group into a box of sameness. Well, you can keep your judgement box. I don’t need it, and you don’t have the right to use it on anyone but yourself.
Standard jibberish response.
Grilled lobster with garlic and herb butter, yum
A fairy tale, at Christmas.
WD.40.
Ah good. I need to get my cholesterol higher and lobster is the perfect food.
Poaching could be stopped by routine night and day flights in the police helicopter and coast guard and cash rewards to people turning them in.
Poaching could be stopped by people just being decent, not breaking the law, and not eating these endangered animals.
Yes, and so could crime and all other negative elements of humanity.
This makes no sense. The cost of flying a helicopter is too high. You could just buy live lobster from Honduras and release them.
The way to ensure there are lobsters in the future is to take a photo and leave them be.
These rules are so rarely enforced that they are practically pointless.
The DOE is condoning human inflicted torture on recognised sentient animals.
There will be no lobster “for generations to come” due to climate change and people eating them into extinction.
Restaraunts on island are the biggest culprits of selling poached lobsters. Needs to be more enforcement on this.
Most lobster found in restaurant all year around comes from Honduras. Their standards are apparently different than ours.
The plastic free pledge is nice, so a poaching free pledge would be nice, but we all know which places will never do it.