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Petitjean examines the different islands in the Eastern Caribbean who are given aid by the Japanese to their respective
fishing industries including St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. Table VI shows Japanese aid to the various
fisheries sectors in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The report focuses on, the effects of the aid from the point of view of
the fishing industry, government and politicians of the islands and also from the donor country. It gives reference to other
reports such as the Caribbean development Bank Annual Report 2001 which indicate economic growth of each island
The Appendix further examines fisheries complexes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. Table XIV shows
some type of aid provided for the four complexes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, three of which are on the Grenadines
islands of Bequia, Canouan and Union.
Phillip, P.E. and Rennie, J. 1993. The flying fish fishery of Grenada p. 159. In: H.A. Oxenford, R. Mahon and W.
Hunte (eds.) The Eastern Caribbean Flyingfish Project. OECS Fishery Report No. 9.
Flyingfish, primarily Hirundicthys affinis, landings have declines sharply over the last 12 years from around 866.7 mt per
year in 1978 to 11.5 mt in 1990. the importance of flyingfish as a component of the total food fish landings in Grenada has
also declines from representing 42% of the total landings in 1978 to just 0.64% in 1990. Whilst flying fish has declined in
importance as a food fish, it has increased its importance as a “baitfish”, being the primary bait used in the developing
longline fishery. There is a strong possibility that the flying fish fishery will now develop entirely as a bait fishery. With
flying fish being landed and stored for use as bait year round in the longline fishery, which is presently constrained by the
lack of bait in the flyingfish “off season”. The traditional fishing technique (hook and line and dipnet) have now been
replaced by the surface gillnet. There is no fishery management for the flyingfish in Grenada.
Pickerill, R.K., S.K. Donavan, and R.W. Portell. 2002. Bioerosional Trace Fossils from the Miocene of Carriacou,
Lesser Antilles Caribbean Journal of Science. Vol. 38, No. 1-2, 106-117 pp.
This paper documents a relatively diverse assemblage of macroborings from the Miocene of Carriacou in the Grenadines,
Lesser Antilles. The borings occurs in molluscan and scleractinian coral substances associated mainly with the Middle
Miocene Grand Bay Formation. The document provides evidence that suggest that the Grand Bay Formation is a deepwater
turbiditic sequence.
Potter, R.B. 1992. St. Vincent and the Grenadines. World Bibliographic Series. Vol 143. CLIO Press Ltd. Oxford,
England. 212 pp.
A bibliography of various documents written on St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Powell, R. and R.W. Henderson. 2005. A New Species of Gonatodes (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the West Indies.
Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp 709-715.*
In this article Powell and Henderson provided a description of a new species of Gonatodes from remnant dry forest on
Union Island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The new species was distinguished from all congeners by its small size, large
body scales (39-44 around midbody; >70 in all congenerics), a bright red-orange iris, and a unique pattern of three pairs of
prominent dorsolateral ocelli on the body. They discussed the biogeographical implications of the new species’ Lesser
Antillean distribution and its conservation status.
Price, N. 1988. Behind the Planters Back: Lower class responses to marginality in Bequia island, Macmillan, St.
Vincent, Macmillan Caribbean (Basingstoke). 274 pp.
Detailed ethnography of a small, lower class Afro-Caribbean community on the island of Bequia in the St Vincent
Grenadines.
Price W.S. 1985. Whaling in the Caribbean: Historical perspective and update. Rept. Int. Whal. Comm. 35: 413-
420.
Not seen.
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