So right prickly one, Bahamians are to mired in complacency, mediocrity and denial to ever consider that they could just possibly be a large part of the problem.
We have met the enemy and it is us!

we all suffer whenever you crawl out of your crab hole............

You mussy lost brudda, white boys on the force scarcer than chicken teeth.

Don't forget the illegal poaching by we home grown Bahamians, there's plenty of that going on Mudda it ain only dem set from the DR.
And look at all the illegal use of air compressors out of lobster season grabbing up conchs by the thousands and spearing all kinda fish too.
Defense force caught a dray load of Bahamian fishermen down south two weeks ago with lone compressors on the boats and in the bushes and crawfish season wasn't even open yet.
Waiting to see if any a dem going to jail and their boats get confiscated, but as they probably working for some politician ain nothin going o happen.

I have also been a diver and spear fisherman for more than fifty years and I can state categorically that ours stocks of not only conchs, but fish and crawfish have seriously declined over that period of time. Years ago you could find as many conchs or crawfish as you wanted right around Nassau, good luck with that now, this a direct result of illegal use of air compressors with no enforcement over the years.
Even in the deeper cuts in the Exuma cays conch has become scarce, thank God for the Exuma Land & Sea Park and the grouper closed season.
Those most dependent on these species for their livelihood are those who will be responsible for their eventual demise as they can't see no further than their pocket, hand to mouth with no thought about the future.
Let us hasten towards the great emptiness, it is already upon us.

Agreed Porcupine, Bahamians are willfully ignorant when it comes to conservation of any kind, and they would gladly trap the last grouper or skin the last conch on earth if it put a dollar in their pocket. Everybody tech savvy enough to post nonsense all day on social media, but in the face of genuine scientific evidence we quick to jump back in the bush and believe what we want to believe, most of it nonsense.

Brave, watch ya ass, Bodie gat he lipstick on !

If they want half a chance they need to be rid of Brave & Fred along with all their various baggage. I'm very surprised that Chester Cooper would want to be associated with much, if any, of what went before him.
If the PLP don't reorganize behind people like Cooper & Sears and dump the Davis's, Hanna's, Mitchell's, Wilchcombes and Millers and their ass kissing sycophants like Bodie they just pissing into the wind.

Lol, that should be toilet teifing Banker

Another knee jerk reaction without any thought to the fallout.
So will this ban include operations like Stuart Coves who has been providing shark dives for years without any attacks and which also provides a huge boost to our tourism product and to our economy? Sorry boys and girls, the guvment say we can't feed the sharks dem no more so we gatty close, yinna gatty go home.
And what will you do about the fish and conch vendors who have been daily chumming the waters adjacent to Montague Beach and the Royal Nassau Sailing Club for years, close them down, relocate them? Carry yinna scrubby hip an carry yinna fish guts and conch slop when yinna gern.
Ms. Lindsey's unfortunate death has created a storm in a teacup with all the talking suits and new brand "shark behavioral experts" queuing up for a sip.