Flying fish: Icon of Barbados under threat

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4 жыл бұрын

Flying fish, the undisputed icon of Barbados, features as the main ingredient in the national dish, is printed inside its passport and stamped on the one-dollar coin. But in recent years the number of flying fish has declined, driving up prices to the point that the island’s staple food is now becoming a luxury. The Down to Earth team went to find out more.
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@valdenelucas2349 3 жыл бұрын

Flying Fish gone to Trinidad..

@sociologydeviance56 4 жыл бұрын

The Barbados government needs to stop destroying the island’s precious marine ecosystem with all the development!

@johanjames4663 4 жыл бұрын

That’s not going to happen as long as the developers keep greesing the pockets government officials

@MM-gp9mb 2 жыл бұрын

So u want us to not develope?

@delonthomas2772 4 жыл бұрын

Caribbean beauty our home

@juanrenesosa4459 4 жыл бұрын

i want to know how can i track the sargasoo weed like was show on the screen . it is any program available for that or a website !!

@DavidJohnson-dc8lu 4 жыл бұрын

The more Barbados allows ugly hotels and apartments to spring up around the coastlines which is still going on, the more the fish will move away from the coast line. Look at the water it does not look blue, looks brown, why would the fish be in that filth, they will get sick, of course they will move. I went to Payne Bay beach, and I always got sick (got a sensitive stomach) in that water, then learned sewer from the hotels goes out to the beach...HENCE. Fly fish might be a national dish, but these lot are too heavily reliant on tourism, and tourism by any means necessary. Coastlines being blocked off, sewer contaminating the waters and fish migrating elsewhere.

@King-wy7hr 4 жыл бұрын

FAKE NEWS! We dont have any brown water on any of our beaches. That is seaweed you are seeing that flows from Africa different times of the year.

@DavidJohnson-dc8lu 4 жыл бұрын

@@King-wy7hr 1:54 what colour is that water? Certainly no blue and clear as it should be.

@dominiquebryan2039 4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-dc8lu I know where that harbor is, the water is blue. Either the color filter are the reflection of clouds you can see above.

@DavidJohnson-dc8lu 4 жыл бұрын

@@dominiquebryan2039 1) Fish don't move from clear blue waters and 2) the footage shows the water was not clear blue. Whether you want to blame it on the camera filter or not. That particular important area where the fly fishes are reducing in numbers can't in an optimal condition for the fish, and they are moving away. You can be in denial or face the truth, your countries future depends on it.

@dominiquebryan2039 4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJohnson-dc8lu I've literally seen it with my own eyes multiple times before.That water is bright blue. I also never said anything about fish moving cause I'm not an expert there.