Days af­ter an at­tack on fish­er­men in Or­ange Val­ley and Car­li Bay, Cou­va, ban­dits have robbed the fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty in To­ba­go, steal­ing two boats and two en­gines from the Belle Gar­den fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty.

Fish­er­men say they left their boats an­chored in the bay Thurs­day night, on­ly to dis­cov­er them miss­ing just be­fore dawn yes­ter­day.

One bat­tered craft was lat­er re­cov­ered in Stud­ley Park with­out its en­gine.

Spokesman for the fish­er­men Fitzger­ald Hades, said fish­er­men at Belle Gar­den were fed up of hav­ing their equip­ment stolen.

He said the loss­es could amount to over $100,000 for each boat.

Two en­gines were al­so stolen ear­li­er this year.

Ac­cord­ing to Hade, who lost an en­gine to thieves two years ago, the ban­dits tend to strike when­ev­er To­ba­go is host­ing a ma­jor fete or event.

To­ba­go is cur­rent­ly in the midst of the To­ba­go Her­itage Fes­ti­val.

Hades said the af­fect­ed fish­er­men are feel­ing the pinch since the sea­son was good for fish­ing and fish­er­men usu­al­ly take in up­wards of 500 pounds of fish a day.

Hades does not be­lieve that the at­tack at Or­ange Val­ley was re­lat­ed to the Belle Gar­den in­ci­dent but said he would not rule out any pos­si­bil­i­ty.

Four years ago a boat was stolen at Belle Gar­den and was lat­er re­cov­ered in­tact at Mara­cas Bay.

Hades is call­ing in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly to in­stall CCTV cam­eras in the area to mon­i­tor the boats and the fa­cil­i­ty.

The fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty is lo­cat­ed in an iso­lat­ed area at the end of Bay Street which is over two kilo­me­tres off the Wind­ward Road.