Culture, Festivals and Events, Sports
By Caribbean Beat ● Issue 24 (March/April 1997)
Game fishers
Game fishers This is the season for St Maarten’s big fishing tournaments: the Lions Annual Fishing Tournament and the Annual Big Game...
Engage, Environment, Food and Cuisine
By Erline Andrews ● Issue 157 (May/June 2019)
The parrotfish dilemma | Green
Among the most colourful marine species, parrotfish play a key role in keeping reefs and beaches healthy. They are also delicious, making fishing bans to protect them unpopular. Without these protections, learns Erline Andrews, they may be overfished into extinction
By Various Contributors ● Issue 78 (March/April 2006)
Something’s fishy
“Sing, Muse. Sing of Kronos’ son Poseidon, shaker of the earth, brother of Zeus, ruler of the deep.” I can respect someone with that...
Embark, Food and Cuisine, Trinidad and Tobago
By Franka Philip ● Issue 126 (March/April 2014)
No fish? No fuss
For Christians, the practice of eating fish on Fridays dates back to the earliest days of the church. And the forty days of Lent, the...
Culture, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago
By James Fuller ● Issue 104 (July/August 2010)
Marlin Madness: masters of the deep
It’s 5am on a warm, overcast morning and I’m negotiating a wobbly exit from the pirogue which has taxied me out from Tobago’s Pigeon...
By Peter Tyson ● Issue 8 (Winter 1993)
The Hunters and the Sea: Caribbean Sportfishing
It was late in the afternoon of the last day of the tournament. For those aboard the big sportfisherman, it had been four days of...