{"id":75266,"date":"2016-07-04T23:36:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=75266"},"modified":"2016-07-04T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T23:36:36","slug":"dont-buy-conch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/07\/04\/dont-buy-conch\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t buy conch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The ban on the sale and consumption of conch in the Dominican Republic began on 1 July 2016. The ban is on several species of conch, including Strombus gigas and Lobatus gigas. The ban is enforced annually from 1 July to 31 October, in order to give time for the breeding period. <\/p>\n<p> For seafood lovers, the government recently lifted the four-month annual ban on lobster fishing that had been in effect since 1 March also to protect the reproductive cycle of the species.<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.elnuevodiario.com.do\/app\/article.aspx?id=486119<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ban on the sale and consumption of conch in the Dominican Republic began on 1 July 2016. The ban is on several species of conch, including Strombus gigas and Lobatus gigas. The ban is enforced annually from 1 July to 31 October, in order to give time for the breeding period. For seafood lovers, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/07\/04\/dont-buy-conch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}