JVD resident calls for strict regulation on holding tanks, fuel disposal
Business owner, Herman Chinnery of Jost Van Dyke, believes that serious attention needs to be paid to yacht owners and their method of sewage disposal as well as the resultant effects that tourism has had on the fishing industry for local fishermen.
The resident complained that if persons were too focused on having as much tourists within the Territory as possible and neglect the natural resources in their surroundings, they will find that a lot of things will be missed after a while.
He was particularly animated about the effects tourism has had on the fishing industry and the state of the ocean. He observed that pollution that came in the form of oil and sewage as a result of yachts should be of some concern to residents of the Territory. “After a while we will start to lose out on our natural resources,” he said.
Chinnery called for strict regulation with regard to the use of holding tanks for yachts that were docked in the various harbours around the islands. The lack of holding tanks on yachts, according to Chinnery, “made our water on our beaches not fit to swim.”
“The government needs to make sure that these people have holding tanks [in their yachts] and they find a place to expose their waste afterwards, instead of ‘letting it go’ any place around here,” he commented, “that is messing up our waters real bad.”
The issue of holding tanks on yachts has occupied the attention of Natural Resources Minister, Dr The Hon. Kedrick D. Pickering for some time, but it is unclear what level of enforcement is being implemented to ensure that yachts are in possession of the device for waste disposal when they arrive in the Territory.
Chinnery also felt that the large number of boats that frequented the islands, somehow disrupted the fishes that were near the shore and kept them at bay. He suspected that this may be as a result of the way fuel was disposed of from the various yachts as well.
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9 Responses to “JVD resident calls for strict regulation on holding tanks, fuel disposal”
But aryo JVD'ers will have to wear what aryo buy. Tis allotta aryo who marry and date many of these same set of "filth"-them and their family members who are now destroying the environment.
Ya can't have your cake and eat it too!
They do it in their home territory so why shouldn't they do it in yours? Maybe a strategic military operation
that doens't spill more of their excrement, should be deployed. You will be helping your selves and the world.
As a result many popular anchorages are actually now unsafe for swimming and the pollution is causing shore fringing reefs to die - and as a consequence destroy fisheries.
(from germany)