[email protected] A Cabinet minister yesterday said Canada has promised to help The Bahamas combat illegal fisheries poaching in its waters by monitoring “dark ships from space” via satellite. Elsworth Johnson, minister for financial services, trade and industry and Immigration, said the changes introduced by the Fisheries Bill 2020 and accompanying Immigration Act reforms - which bar foreigners from working on Bahamian-owned fishing vessels even though they may have legal status in this nation - are “not of recent vintage”. Pointing out that successive administrations have been grappling with illegal poaching, and arguments over whether fisheries should be reserved for Bahamian workers only, Mr Johnson said the protection of this nation's marine resources was critical for the country's sovereignty and economic stability.