Sorry Sam. My post referred current news on how carefully Americans adhere to animal rights/cruelty laws. It also had the ironic staging of JFK airport, one that is important to many travelers to the DR. Your thread is interesting. If my post doesn't belong, please disregard it.
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Laws in the DR. about capturing and eating Sea Turtles ?
Sorry Sam. My post referred current news on how carefully Americans adhere to animal rights/cruelty laws. It also had the ironic staging of JFK airport, one that is important to many travelers to the DR. Your thread is interesting. If my post doesn't belong, please disregard it.
when we bought this house the garden was a mess. we ended up taking out 9 truckloads of rubbish. there was lots of centipedes in the rotting garbage, some run away, some were hacked up by the workers. boy, you should see their faces when i announced those cienpies sold in USA for hundreds of dollars. they looked like i personally robbed them of this money...
It is very easy to stop, make an example of people who buy them. People take alsorts of aquatic life from here (let's be fair, there is little life on shore to interest anyone), we sit and call Dominicans ignorant and uneducated for capturing these beasts, yet the market is made by those from our developed worlds. We all know Dominicans only eat rice and beans and so they themselves have little use for turtles other than feed our greed of all things unusual.
There are certain parts of Asia I would have enjoyed living if it wasn't for being surrounded by the misery of animals on an hourly, day to day, permanent basis, I've tried but the disregard is relentless and I couldn't cope with it. Dominicans are relatively caring for their animals in comparrisson to elsewhere I've been. But again, even in the most distasteful, cruel environments, they still get conservation, and that is why Dominicans are stupid, they just do not get conservation because that means thinking further ahead than today.
There are certain parts of Asia I would have enjoyed living if it wasn't for being surrounded by the misery of animals on an hourly, day to day, permanent basis, I've tried but the disregard is relentless and I couldn't cope with it. Dominicans are relatively caring for their animals in comparrisson to elsewhere I've been. But again, even in the most distasteful, cruel environments, they still get conservation, and that is why Dominicans are stupid, they just do not get conservation because that means thinking further ahead than today.
There apparently is still a restaurant on the NC that serves Sea Turtle when they have it... haven't been yet, but will report on it if I can...
Ha Ha... Funny you should mention that.. I know the 2 girls who work for them here.. They live in the same condo complex I do.. I will ask them next time I see them.....
Not the DR. but once had Sea Turtle steak in Hamilton Bermuda at a restaurant in the mid 80's....
Yes in the DR - it's 'known' to locals that they sometimes serve it... I'll refrain from mentioning the name until I can confirm it myself
Growing up in the Bahamas, we were on Cat Cay or similar I think.. with my parents on the boat in the early / mid 60's... Deserted little cay.... We were playing on the beach when we spotted a sea turtle swimming up.... We ran and out maneuvered it back and forth till we got it to the beach and captured it... OH about 2.5 ft. I would say..... Well Dad dispatched it, and we had turtle for days.. Meat, soup etc.. I had that shell on the wall in my bedroom on Andros till the dog got it down and chewed it up years later... I guess it's a mind set of what you will like to eat, and if's it is right outside your ft. door...... I haven't eaten a manatee.. But I imagine there are people who do... I don't believe on killing anything till extinction.... But then, were not living on Rapa Naui either.....
Apparently the turtles are making a comeback because they've done well protecting the beaches where they lay the eggs. (Turtle eggs were an export product for a long time in Mexico and other countries). Still, I hear 90% of the hatchlings don't make it to the ocean because of seagulls and other predators. Seems to me, they should be putting more effort into keeping the critters from killing them.
Go little turtle! GO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9XHxp7OJg
Go little turtle! GO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9XHxp7OJg
Growing up in the Bahamas, we were on Cat Cay or similar I think.. with my parents on the boat in the early / mid 60's... Deserted little cay.... We were playing on the beach when we spotted a sea turtle swimming up.... We ran and out maneuvered it back and forth till we got it to the beach and captured it... OH about 2.5 ft. I would say..... Well Dad dispatched it, and we had turtle for days.. Meat, soup etc.. I had that shell on the wall in my bedroom on Andros till the dog got it down and chewed it up years later... I guess it's a mind set of what you will like to eat, and if's it is right outside your ft. door...... I haven't eaten a manatee.. But I imagine there are people who do... I don't believe on killing anything till extinction.... But then, were not living on Rapa Naui either.....