TWO MONTHS after a proposal by small private craft and fishing boat owners to convert Consett Bay in St John into a "safe harbour" should a storm strike, Government has taken no action to evaluate such a suggestion.

In a candid interview recently with the MIDWEEK NATION, Minister of Agriculture, Senator Erskine Griffith, expressed his displeasure with the plans offered to him, describing them as "nothing more than a piece of paper with some marks on it and not proper drawings".

He also said he had "neither visited the area, nor evaluated it" as a possible safe harbour.

Last August, the minister indicated he would be "willing to study a proposal" which he had not yet seen, to convert Consett Bay.

He was responding to a proposal by St Philip resident John Marshall, a sports fisherman who owns the vessel Fish And Chicks and moors his boat at the idyllic bay.

However, Marshall yesterday expressed his "disappointment in the ministry", saying his drawings represented "an idea".

"I was not preparing blueprints for Government without so much as a meeting to discuss the feasibility of the project," he said.

"I would have thought there would have been some sort of follow-up so that at least the wheels could start turning," he lamented.

Marshall, who heads Marshall Trading, weeks ago urged Government "to move without delay to place a series of boulders or concrete dolos weighing about five tonnes each, along the encircling reef that defines the bay, to break up wave action".

He called for the ministry and Fisheries Division "to look seriously at this project and initiate a physical impact study without delay".