Flying fish: Icon of Barbados under threat

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ย. 2019
  • 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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ความคิดเห็น • 30

  • @valdenelucas2349
    @valdenelucas2349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Flying Fish gone to Trinidad..

  • @sociologydeviance56
    @sociologydeviance56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @johanjames4663
      @johanjames4663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @MM-gp9mb
      @MM-gp9mb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So u want us to not develope?

  • @delonthomas2772
    @delonthomas2772 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Caribbean beauty our home

  • @juanrenesosa4459
    @juanrenesosa4459 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 !!

  • @sonofyah8650
    @sonofyah8650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The planet had enough

  • @DavidJohnson-dc8lu
    @DavidJohnson-dc8lu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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
      @King-wy7hr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @DavidJohnson-dc8lu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @dominiquebryan2039
      @dominiquebryan2039 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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
      @DavidJohnson-dc8lu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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
      @dominiquebryan2039 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

  • @jeryvornwoods2882
    @jeryvornwoods2882 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi can I get a number for flying fish catchers in barbadoes

    • @kemarbest7539
      @kemarbest7539 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      +1 (246) 243-2908 +1 (246) 827-4117

  • @Aries16603
    @Aries16603 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rihanna and Nicki Minaj’s live brought me here.

  • @brd8764
    @brd8764 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Near viman triangle.

  • @mariabaird2151
    @mariabaird2151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tourism is killing it off

  • @killdeerperiland3303
    @killdeerperiland3303 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    whos this brad?

  • @sandrinelewis8742
    @sandrinelewis8742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think fishermen should wear life jackets on board their vessels ... paramount for safety!!!

  • @emo4126
    @emo4126 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    well , just keep young americans out . then you'll have a lot less sarCasm in barbados

  • @mLi75
    @mLi75 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    no excrement for the fish to eat as a result of the south coast sewage treatment plant.
    ASK TOBAGO they have lots of Flying Fish.