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Lionfish Warning
Written by Administrator   
28 October 2009

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Users of the Montego Bay Marine Park are advised that there has been a marked increase in Lionfish sightings throughout the park.

The Lionfish is one of the most venomous fish in the ocean.  Contact with one of its poisonous spines will inflict severe pain, and can lead to convulsions, parlysis and in rare instances, death.

 
Dangerous Dust
Written by Caroline Silsbury   
16 July 2010

dust-mapOur weather map lately has been a series of blobs – three or four tropical waves lined up between Africa and Central America, each with its load of rain and thunder and the possibility of a tropical storm.  However, the middle of the Atlantic is covered by a much bigger blob – a huge mass of hot air and Saharan dust.

This dust cloud rose in the north African desert around the middle of June.  By July 13, its head was moving past Jamaica but its tail hadn’t quite left  the African coast.  It’s a monster.

 
Too Much Water?
Written by Caroline Silsbury   
25 June 2010

…be careful what you wish for

too-much-waterThe Atlantic storm season is off to an early start.  The first named storm – Alex – came almost two months sooner than Ana last year, and a lineup of disturbances across the Atlantic suggest that the forecast of an active summer and fall could be right.  Whether any of these storms land in Jamaica or not, it seems likely that our two-year “long dry” could be over.  In fact, we may soon be complaining about too much water.

 
New Fish Sanctuary Declared
Written by Administrator   
10 August 2008
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The Montego Bay Marine Park Trust is pleased to announce the establishment of the Montego Bay Marine Park Fish Sanctuary. This new sanctuary, established by Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton in October, is designed to stem the depletion of critical fish stocks adjacent to important tourism and spawning areas.

 
High Water
01 July 2010

…keeping safe when floods come

SOURCE: go-jamaica.comLast week we talked about the end of Jamaica’s “long dry”.  Heavy spring rain and the prospect of an active tropical storm season suggest that soon we could be looking at too much water in all the wrong places.  Every year, Jamaicans die in floods and landslides even when no hurricane comes near us.  There are things we can all do to be safer.

 
Orphans of the reef
Written by Caroline Silsbury   
18 June 2010

…broken homes and abandoned children

family-lifeFather’s Day has come and gone, but in the sea it’s not much to celebrate.  Family life and parenting, as people understand them, don’t happen.  Most children are abandoned even before they’re born, and for the rest, casual single parents are the norm.