 The PIRL management proposal held no real benefits to local stakeholders, including those in the diving, yachting and day excursion industries.Concern over PIRL proposals cemented the formation of the Alliance of Union Island Environmental Organizations, which in turn approached other Vincentians for assistance.“The Friends of the Tobago Cays” (FOTC) had as its core element some members of the defunct National Trust of St .Vincent and the Grenadines and emerged as the organization that would bring the issues to the public’s attention.