Sascha Wil­son

Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um is con­duct­ing clean-up op­er­a­tions in the Gulf of Paria fol­low­ing an oil spill off Fuller­ton Beach in Ce­dros which has ground­ed over 30 boats and af­fect­ed more than 100 fish­er­men.

Fish­er­men first ob­served the oil stains on their ropes and boats around 6 pm on Wednes­day.

They re­port­ed the leak to Her­itage and a clean-up crew was sent this morn­ing.

How­ev­er, fish­er­men are un­sure when they will be able to re­turn to the sea to ply their trade.

Com­plain­ing that it took months to be com­pen­sat­ed for the last ma­jor oil spill, the fish­er­men are call­ing on Her­itage to move swift­ly with com­pen­sa­tion.