The government of the has plans to run an aggressive campaign in the in a bid to discourage poaching in their waters.

A ministerial delegation including Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell, Bernard Nottage, their National Security Minister and Financial Services Minister Ryan Pinder and Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources V Alfred Gray will meet Dominican ministers next week to discuss a range of issues including the problem of Dominicans fishing in their waters and what resolutions they can find to eliminate or reduce it.

The Bahamas has already taken measures to curb poaching by foreign fishermen in Bahamian waters by banning permits to non-Bahamian fishermen and has pledged to put more resources into the Royal Bahamas Defense Force to allow officers to better patrol Bahamian waters.