SWTA's working relationship with Jalousie is an excellent example of how a good water taxi system can work. SWTA is not happy with the lack of cooperation we receive at some other hotels that utilize their own boats as well as those of our operators. We are confident that, with our better-equipped boats, we can provide more enjoyable and comfortable service to their guests and hope that use of our boats will increase in the future. As we are getting into the season the dive business doing well for the large operations and average for the smaller ones. We are also seeing less use of dive sites within the SMMA by the large operators from the Castries area as they are making greater use of sites in the north.
Diving is very good as fish populations, particularly numbers of young, continue to grow.
Also, a greater number of turtles are being seen in the region. Concern for the ecology of the reefs and surrounding waters continues as we still see much evidence of pollution. Plastic soft-drink bottles are seen in abundance. Anbaglo, along with the Department of Fisheries, is also very concerned about continued indiscriminate dumping of refuse, which is often done under the guise of creating artificial reefs. Reef bleaching, particularly of brain coral, continues to be a growing problem from Marigot Bay to Gros Piton.