In the sleepy Cuban fishing village of Cojimar that inspired Ernest Hemingway�...
HAVANA - In the sleepy Cuban fishing village of Cojimar that inspired Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” locals say they are struggling to catch fish.Cuba’s fish stocks have dropped drastically in recent decades due to overfishing and environmental factors, scientists say, prompting the country last month to pass a law imposing new regulations on the fishing industry.
The decline has been a blow to the fishing industry, which already suffered the dismantling of its long-range state fishing fleet because it could not maintain it in the wake of the collapse of Cuba’s former benefactor the Soviet Union. Cubans eat a quarter of the seafood they did at the end of the 1980s, according to official data, and just a fraction of the global average fish consumption per capita, leading them to joke bitterly about being an island without fish.
Whittle said the practices should also make the industry more resilient to new challenges like climate change and protect its rich marine biodiversity including some of the world’s most pristine coral reefs. While the practices might affect fish supply in the short-run, they should boost it in the long-run.
Limits on boat building and imports, for example, mean private commercial fishermen own vessels often predate Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, like the island’s candy-colored vintage American cars, and are kitted out with motors from decades-old Soviet land vehicles.
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