00:00Barbados hurricane barrel left a trail of havoc in the fisher folk on its way through the Caribbean
00:04country. With more information Crystal Hoyte from CBC News. A nightmare for fishing boat owners and
00:12operators as their livelihoods taken by a surging sea driven by storm force winds from category 4
00:21hurricane barrel. These boats represent millions of dollars in investment. At least 20 are lost,
00:28smashed until they sink below the surface. Scores more suffer significant damage from the battering
00:36waves. Honestly we're just hoping for the best. I have watched three boats sink so far since I've
00:42been here. I've watched one break in half. So much destruction is in here right now. So much
00:48destruction. This is my livelihood. Pray for our families. There's nothing more we can do. We can't
00:53even save the boats. We tried. We were trying for the whole market to save. We can't. Fishermen
00:57were trying to help pull them out. Trying to get them together. They had to jump off their boats
01:03for their safety. Everything is smashed up. Jetty gone. Everything. More boats are sinking.
01:10She says it's a huge financial loss. One of these boats maybe a wood board 160,000 170,000.
01:19That's a wood board. Imagine fiberglass. Millions of dollars. Millions of dollars. Millions of
01:26dollars. And I'm not exaggerating. This is millions and millions of dollars. Stephen Bourne who lost
01:34two of his boats says the fishing industry has been heavily impacted. And he's already predicting
01:41shortages. It's a blow completely to the whole fishing industry in Barbados. Because majority
01:48of the fishing boats in the complex who is sinking, all of them have damages. Chairman of the Fisheries
01:55Advisory Committee Kimar Harris could not give a full assessment of the situation but notes that
02:02even the jetty was damaged. The number of boats that we have lost that have actually sunk and
02:08broken up we do not know. You see surges are coming in as hard as possible and it's actually
02:14crashing boats and so forth. Most of you look around most of the fishermen and boat owners are here
02:19but men are in tears, women are in tears. This is a tough time though for the fishing industry.
02:26Chief Fisheries Officer Dr. Shelleyann Cox has been undertaking preliminary assessments. It's
02:32the first step to determine the full scope of this devastating blow to the fishing industry.
02:39For Stowe Hoyt, CBC News. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mowgli called citizens to be vigilant and
02:46follow the authorities measures to avoid further damage. This stage is just to get order here and
02:51as you can see I don't want anybody being injured. So I want to make sure that they give the reports
02:57but we keep people from the back. So I'm going to do a last check. Y'all don't need to come with me.
03:02Just stay here because I don't want nobody else going back down in there especially with them
03:06smells of diesel being as strong as they are. The port has really taken a battering both on land
03:14and in the water. I'm told that two vessels sunk the Jolly Roger which is already because it was
03:21wood started to dissipate and some of it the harbour masters indicated has started to
03:26float out. The Dream Chaser which has gone down below. I have asked the chairman of the port and
03:32the CEO for the port to have an emergency board meeting this evening so that they can start to
03:38deal with the question of recovery and cleanup as a matter of urgency. They are a commercial entity
03:43capable of self-containment and doing their own stuff and therefore we will await to get the
03:48report but you can see quite frankly what the storm surge has brought in here and you heard
03:55when we were down the road there at the Fisher Harbor that nobody has ever seen this scale of
04:00waves come on this side and therefore it is part and parcel as I said of what I call the season of
04:06superlatives and we have therefore to build to higher levels for the resilience that we need.
04:12The immediate needs is to bring the port as operational as soon as possible that means
04:19moving all of these rocks that have come in from the ocean floor. You can see that the buildings
04:24they have damaged the walls have been damaged so there is both damage onshore and in the water.
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