For six weeks, fishing communities based at Barbados’ Bridgetown Fisheries Complex have been trapped in a cascading operational crisis that has idled most of their fleet, pushed thousands out of work and pushed the entire local fishing industry to the brink of collapse. Three overlapping crises — a total outage of the complex’s two ice-making units, sky-high diesel prices, and unfair competition from misdirected imported fish — have combined to grind day-to-day operations to a halt, prompting industry leaders to demand immediate government intervention to save the sector.