It is 294.13m (965 feet) long, by 32.31m (106 feet) wide, by 12.04m (42.2 feet) draught (depth) capable of carrying 5,000 TEUs or 20-foot-long shipping containers.

to replace those destroyed, is not so simple.Įver hear of the term Panamax? It's a shipping term denoting the maximum size of a ship able to pass through the locks of the Panama Canal. Saying that they will replant mangroves, re-establish reefs, etc. They failed to thrive and then died, most likely because of the lack of sufficient silt to nourish them. Last year, I collected more than 200 seedlings from the mangroves growing around the small jetty, a little past the Plumb Point Lighthouse on the harbour side, to try to re-establish at least a couple of the previous spots where they used to be along the raised Palisadoes roadway. Tasty predatory fish that leave and migrate east and west along the coast. However, do you think we're the only ones eating the shrimp? Smaller shrimp form the part of the 'baby food' for fish. In Kingston, with the Kingston Harbour as badly polluted as it is, can you imagine having to get your shrimp from as far as Black River? You couldn't afford them because of the distance they'd have to be transported, and the shrimp vendors would go broke. Where do the better-looking shrimp being sold by the Indian lady on South Avenue come from? I've asked, and was told, the seagrass beds of Old Harbour, which is in the Portland Bight. I have seen on Barry Street, fish vendors in the past, selling baby snook as small as 20cm (eight inches) long, netted from Dawkins Pond with its mangroves and seagrass beds, now mostly silted up by the blockage of the approaches to the causeway. to hide and have a moderate chance of avoiding being eaten by adult snappers, jacks, tarpon, grunts, snook, and many others. Seagrass beds, mangrove roots, gravel beds and shallow water allow the baby fish, shrimp, etc. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.

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