{"id":3704,"date":"2024-10-11T11:44:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2024-10-11T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T11:44:53","slug":"loss-of-fishing-boats-to-hurricane-beryl-affecting-demand-for-chicken-in-barbados-11oct2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2024\/10\/11\/loss-of-fishing-boats-to-hurricane-beryl-affecting-demand-for-chicken-in-barbados-11oct2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss of fishing boats to Hurricane Beryl affecting demand for chicken in Barbados 11Oct2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Barbados Today, today: Officials say fish shortage driving increased demand for chicken<\/a>. Some extracts:<\/p>\n

On Thursday, BEPPA board director Amir Juman said there were two main factors impacting the industry, which resulted in consumers being unable to source the quantity of fresh chicken they usually would at supermarkets and other outlets. He explained that there had been a significant increase in demand for chicken over the past weeks as hundreds of protein lovers sought alternatives to fish which has been scarce since Hurricane Beryl affected the island\u2019s fishing fleet…<\/em><\/p>\n

In July, Hurricane Beryl destroyed 220 of the 312 active boats at the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex, the island\u2019s largest fish landing site. This has left Barbados reliant on limited cold-stored fish and the small number of boats still able to venture out for fresh catches.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n‘Have to say as a mostly off-islander, I appreciate so much the free access to the full Barbados Today news. It’s a marked contrast to the situation where I live most of the time, in Canada, where it is increasingly difficult to access such news –\u00a0 we have very few newspapers or online news journals remaining, paid or not, with as thorough and regular coverage of\u00a0 local news as I see in Barbados Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thx\u00a0Barbados Today, Thx BIM all!<\/em><\/p>\n

– david p<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Barbados Today, today: Officials say fish shortage driving increased demand for chicken. Some extracts: On Thursday, BEPPA board director Amir Juman said there were two main factors impacting the industry, which resulted in consumers being unable to source the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisheries","category-hurricanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}