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December 2, 2023

Nassau Grouper Closed Season

The Fisheries Department hereby reminds all fishers that the Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) season is officially declared closed from December 1st, 2023, to March 31st, 2024, [...]
November 3, 2023

Conch Shell Bay fisherman pleads guilty to possession of 62 conchs during the closed season

The 50-year-old was charged along with two other men from Belize City after being caught on September 19 along the sea wall behind the Supreme Court [...]
October 29, 2023

Concerns over too much borrowing dominate debate in Senate on $14 million loan for blue economy project

They had another opportunity in the Senate on Thursday with a US$7 million (BZ$14 million) loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to execute a blue economy [...]
October 20, 2023

Fishers told to stop placing gear near Barrier Reef

This is in accordance with Statutory Instrument No. 106 of 2022 and the Department is authorized to remove traps, shades, and other gear beginning immediately and [...]
October 17, 2023

Belize borrows $14 million to promote sustainable growth in fisheries industry

The listed aims of the program are as follows: (i) create an enabling environment for the sustainable and resilient management of the fisheries sector; (ii) provide [...]
October 8, 2023

Two fishermen charged and handed hefty fines for illegal harvesting of conch from Turneffe Atoll Reserve

57-year-old Francisco Chan of Otro Benque Road, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District; and 23-year-old Russell Melendez of Copper Bank, Corozal District, were each charged with [...]
October 6, 2023

Territorial Volunteers recover gill net with stuck lobster, stingray

On their latest expedition in the waters, they removed an illegally placed gill net, banned for use in Belize, containing at least one juvenile lobster and [...]
September 11, 2023

An antibiotic for the reef: how Belize’s Barrier Reef is being treated against the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (Part one of two)

By Aaron Humes: In 2019, scientists detected small white lesions on coral species in Belize, indicating stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) had arrived in the [...]