While spear fishing scammers will sometimes use public information from social media or the web to personalize the message, in this case, the fraudster seemed to know details about the matter that were not public.
Not exact matches
But
while humans had already been pulling shellfish out of the shallows for 100,000 years by that point, the first good evidence of
fishing with hooks or
spears comes much later — around 12,000 years ago.
GENERAL INFORMATION - In order to preserve resources for those living in Belize, the following are outlawed: exporting and / or the removal of black coral, gathering orchids on forest reserves, hunting with out a license,
spear fishing while scuba diving, taking of archaeological artifacts and camping in public places, especially any forest reserves.
Although
fishing of any kind is not allowed
while scuba diving, we are permitted to
spear Lionfish.
Shellfish were collected,
while fish were
speared or ingeniously caught in stone traps that isolated them at low tide.
The natural richness and potential of Oostpunt since 1993 is under huge stress due to natural deterioration, and rampant illegal practices such as
spear fishing, plundering of baby conch, lobsters and the capture of sea turtles and rays, poaching of goats / sheep and donkeys,
while a variety of other criminal activities savagely take place in the area, like car theft and stripping, the smuggling of drugs and people, trash dumping, etc..