The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has slammed Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy’s response to its concerns over licensing Chinese vessels to fish in Guyana’s waters as an attempt to hoodwink the public.
“The idea of contracting a Chinese agency to determine whether there are species in Guyana’s waters that can be fished by Chinese trawlers suggests Minister Ramsammy is being facetious or that he has no regard for public opinion,” the GHRA said in a statement issued yesterday. “Such a study would convince no one and appears more like a fig-leaf to cover his intention to continue on the course of licensing Chinese fishermen,” the group said.
The GHRA acknowledged that a study of the species, shoals and fish-stocks in Guyanese waters would be very valuable,
