This has been ongoing ever since LFK became commercialized by turning it into a destination for cruise ship visitors.
The Arch family has lived their lives protecting the dwindling Conch, most notably in this exact marine zone environment. I would ascribe to anything he states, all his posts are likely understated and nowhere near attributing the amount of damning culpability that these people have earned.
It's Honduras. Money can trump any law, most certainly an environmental regulation.
There is nothing to be done about it. The damage has been done, it was visible and obvious for years coming. Nothing got done then, nothing will be done now. It's over. More coming.
You can try to influence behaviors by voting with your wallet, but the best it will do is delay the inevitability by a week. The Pod People have arrived in our formerly natural paradise, they want to be entertained, the true jewel of Roatan- the diving, it's not what they can do...ooh, wait, there's the "resort course SCUBA experience".
[As providence would have it, the diving just offshore of LFK is quite spectacular but protected by being decidedly in the "advanced" category due to quite a bit of very deep hard bottoms between lovely chutes, easy to get stupid deep, just out front. Also, to the West, it's the Mr.Bud placed wreck, it begins in a 70' bottom and the walls break from there. Not tailored for their likely guest profiles, but that should present no barrier if they decide to sell that thrill ride.]
Enjoy Roatan while what is left still lasts. If people want to pay serious dollars to swim with chained and de-toothed Jaguars, how can you beat that? The only other options is the originally named Black Pearl Golf Course, one of the zip lines, the Dolphin Pester or Shark Rodeo.
I started diving Cayman in 1972. It was essentially virginal. Now it's a moonscape, I don't care what Muffy and Buffy have to say about their dive vacay on Trip Advisor. Same for Nassau and Grand Bahama, many and most others. Roatan began a precipitous spiral downfall about 1992. The most highly touted diving zones are mere shadows of the way it was. Still for the Caribbean, it's the best of what's left.
/rant