Only foreigners can fish our waters

"Only foreigners can fish our waters"

HOLGUIN, Cuba - February 15 (Liannis Meriño Aguilera, Jóvenes sin
Censura / www.cubanet.org) - Residents of a small fishing village in
Holguín province complain that increasingly stern restrictions on their
traditonal occupation mean that only foreign turists can fish their waters.

"Before 1959, most residents of Puerto de Vita fished for a living. Now
only foreigners can fish our waters," said human rights activist Vicente
Hidalgo, who complained that "severe restrictions directed at fishermen
became harsher after the government established a recreational fishing
center nearby."

"Recently," he said, "two fishermen were fined 1,500 pesos each because
they didn't have the fishing permit which has to be obtained daily from
the port authority and which in any case, is very hard to get."

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