While poverty in the Bahamas is rampant and government revenues are
thin, even with very high tariffs on such common commodities as food
and petrol, the fees now being charged for merely entering the
country's waters is a ripoff. Just ask the owners/operators of
marinas, restaurants, hotels, etc. about the steep fall off in their
businesses income to ascertain how much the foolish government
officials have shot themselves and their impoverished citizens in the
foot.

I expect the fee to be lifted and the effort to raise government
revenue at the expense of boat owners to be abandoned.