FISHING METHODS EMPLOYED 



Using individual line and hooks. (Courtesy of xi evista 

 Industria'Pesquera, Habana) 



Offshore . Fish are taken as deep as 35 fathoms, but 20 is the average. 

 Fish taken from greater depths do not survive the trip back to consumption cen- 

 ters. Individual handlines with three hooks are used for fishing deep-water 

 grouper, red snapper and kingfish off the Mexican coast. Fish caught by this 

 method comprised about two-fifths of Cuba's total consumption prior to the war, 

 and roughly one-fourth since then. Fish for canneries (tunny-fish, albacore and 

 bonito) are caught by the Japanese method of individual line and hook similar to 

 that employed on the Pacific coast of the United States. 



Inshore . Practically all the fish caught within Cuban jurisdictional waters 

 are fished at less than 20 fathoms. Coastal deep-water fishing and trolling 

 account only for a small fraction. 



Beach seine ( chinchorre ) is the method most commonly used at small depths 

 for fishing muttonfish, lane snapper and other commercially important species, 

 while trap nets ( nasas ) are used inshore at greater depths for catching the same 

 kind of fish as well as lobsters and morro crabs. 



