⚠️IMPORTANT WARNING FOR ALL DIVERS ⚠️ Fast-spreading lethal disease (potentially SCTLD) has reached Bonaire’s reefs.

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That is a terrible article. The reporting is incorrect. For example, it says: "don’t dive in uninfected areas" but the actual STINAPA regulations are:
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Sad to see the pile of sharpnose puffers, and can't imagine how they ended up together other than through human intervention, especially since they appear to be in various stages of decomposition. We were there in March, and there were sharpnose puffers everywhere, far beyond anything we'd seen before. Hordes! Maybe people were using them for bait and dumping what they didn't use.
 
That is a terrible article. The reporting is incorrect. For example, it says: "don’t dive in uninfected areas" but the actual STINAPA regulations are:
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you are correct: is contradictory.., they start with "don't dive in uninfected areas"
then they circumvent themselves with decontaminate, limit your dives per area, and then in bullet three (3) they write: Avoid diving in infected areas

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Sad to see the pile of sharpnose puffers, and can't imagine how they ended up together other than through human intervention, especially since they appear to be in various stages of decomposition. We were there in March, and there were sharpnose puffers everywhere, far beyond anything we'd seen before. Hordes! Maybe people were using them for bait and dumping what they didn't use.
I had the same observation, they are all piled up together, seems to be all same species, and they are in various stages of decomposition.

When you say there were sharpnose puffers everywhere. You mean alive and swimming, or on shore piled up?
 
I had the same observation, they are all piled up together, and they are in various stages of decomposition.

When you say there were sharpnose puffers everywhere. You mean alive and swimming, or on shore piled up?
Alive and swimming. It seemed like every third fish was a sharpnose puffer!
 
you are correct: is contradictory.., they start with "don't dive in uninfected areas"
then they circumvent themselves with decontaminate, limit your dives per area, and then in bullet three (3) they write: Avoid diving in infected areas

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Your response is confusing. You appear to be mixing the infoboanire article you linked with my quote from the STINAPA regulations at Bonaire National Marine Park
 

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