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maybe, just hopefully because Belize has realized that there won't be any lobster to "fest" about given the current state of the "industry". Thanks Marty for this:

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So, is there some kind of 'official' decision? Lobsterfest or NO Lobsterfest? Would it be announced in the local newspaper or something?

***Just finished reading some of the issues surrounding lobster fishing/trapping. Pretty controversial, so I don't know for sure what's happening, but it looks like taking undersized lobsters creates a serious shortage? Hope it can be balanced out in the future.

In San Pedro, and i'm sure it's the same for Caye Caulker, we have been offered lobster at Mathieu's Delicatessen a couple of times in closed season. When I remarked "isn't it still closed season?", and told the seller I wasn't interested, he backed out the door pretty damn quick. When we were living on Caye Caulker I took a fishing trip with friends of friends (just accompanying on a working fishing boat), and they pulled up a sackful of lobster, there must have been at least 80 or 90. That was 3 weeks before open.

Trying to have a tactful conversation about this with the fishermen, they said simply "if we wait til open, there'll be no lobster left, everyone's doing it so we can have a stockpile to sell on day one"... that was 3 weeks before open, go figure how long they'd been doing it and how may others had. Makes mockery of "closed" season.