The reef/Poachers

[quintas]

I've been coming down to Negril since the early or mid 1970s. Love to snorkel. There was a stretch of many years when I didn't go down and in the last 7 or 8 years I've ben down 3 or 4 times. The snorkeling now sucks and seems to be getting worse. I'm scheduled to come down in a couple of weeks for probably, I hate to say it, my last visit. Why should I go to a place where I cannot enjoy one of the
things that I love to do there?
I love the people, the food, the music, the subs and many other things about the island but I cannot keep going to a dead ocean. I'm pretty sure I'll have to find somewhere else, might be a little more expensive but....
Education is the way to go. What are all these poachers going to do when the sea is empty and no tourists come?

[Winterpegger]

I remember snorkeling off a boat on the way to the Cay and seeing some of the tallest coral towers I've seen anywhere since - and that includes dives at Cayman and Roatan, and snorkeling Cozumel. That was the early 90's. I haven't seen those since and by the sounds of it, they are gone. Or has anyone seen some fantastic coral lately anywhere offshore of 7-mile?