APPENDIX II 



Cuban breeding grounds and fisheries of fish and sea food 



Province and site 



Kind of fish and sea food 



PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE (North coast) 

 La Fe (weedy, gravelly, white stone) 

 Los Sitios Inlet (rocky, mottled with 

 algae ) 



Punta Colorada, Pinalillo, Garnacha 



Inlet 

 Soldado Estuary. Guadiana and Verde 



Rivers 

 Arroyos de Mantua (bay 3 fathoms deep, 



mossy) 

 Buenavista Key, Juan and Manaties Lakes 



Canal Honda and Labra Key Lakes 



Pancho and Los Alcatraces Lakes 

 Los Arroyos and Mantua Rivers 

 Confluence of Mantua River and Lisa 



Estuary 

 La Ortigosa (sand banks along coast) 

 Santiago River 

 Granadillo Point to Guana jo Key 



(shallow, muddy) 

 San Vicente Cove (U fathoms, gravelly, 



mossy) 

 Las Calabazas Nook, Almuerzo Estuary 



(weedy loams) 

 Mala Habitacion Lake and Rojas Inlet 

 La Union Inlet 



La Lisa and Moruro Points 



Los Cocos Inlet (loamy, weedy, U 



fathoms deep) 

 Los Cocos Bay 

 Herradura Inlet 

 Dominica Canal 



El Mariel (rocky beds with weeds) 



Fuerte San Elias Point, Angosta Inlet 



Bajo Inlet 



Boquerones Beach 



Shelter for lane snapper and others 

 Breeding grounds for nassau grouper, 



muttonfish, yellowtail, lane snapper, 



grunt and others 

 Breeding grounds of shallow-water fishes 



Spawnings of mullet, snook, croaker, 



oysters 

 Lane snapper and sand-bank fishes 



Menatees, and several kinds of deep water 



fishes 

 Gray and lane snappers, small muttonfish, 



yellowtail, round pompanos 

 Irish pompano, snook, etc. 

 White fishes 

 Mullet, snook, croaker, Irish pompano, etc. 



Barrds, picudillas 



Mullets, snook, oysters 



Mollusks, croaker, snook, pompano, sardine 



Grey and lane snappers, yellowtail, 



muttonfish, redhind 

 Several species of fishes 



Oysters and white fishes 



Mullet, snook, pompanos, croakers, 



sardine 

 Several varieties of sardines: machuelos, 



bocones 

 Muttonfish, yellowtail, grey, lane and 



dog snapper, schoolmaster, etc. 

 Shrimps 



Redhind, rockhind, also deep water fishes 

 Sharks, black sessie and silk snappers, 



others 

 Yellowtail, muttonfish, redhind, grey 



and dog snapper 

 Lane snapper, muttonfish, grey snapper, 



yellow grunt, barrds 

 Clams, cockle, oysters, shrimps, octupus, 



squid 

 Turtle and carey tortoise 



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