Cuban breeding grounds and fisheries of fish and sea food (continued) 

 Province and site Kind of fish and food 



Mosquito River, keys in shallow wat 



shoals along coast and ocean front 



including Batista, Dimas, Rapado, 



Diego, Alonso, Rojas 

 Puerto Esperanza (shallow area) 

 Pescadores Point, Canal, Bay and 



Playuelos Inlet (weedy, loose rocks, 



shoals) 

 Jutias, La Galera, Sta. Lucia Inlet, 



Ines de Soto Key, Levisa 

 Windwardly away from Jutias Key (8 to 



> 25 fathoms) 

 La Mulata, Megano, El Morrillo 

 La Paila 



Morrillo Well (deep water) 

 Mani-mani River (shallow, muddy) 

 Corojol Point to Majiagua Point (9 ft., 



weedy) 

 Muerto Key to Guano Point (shallow, 



weedy) 

 Los Colorados Inlet to San Ignacio 



Point (muddy) 

 San Diego River (shallow outlet) 

 San Diego Bay 



PINAR DEL RIO PROVINCE (South coast) 

 Cortes Inlet, Bailen, Guyagusteja, Est. 

 Punta de Cartas, Galafre, La Coloma 



HABANA PROVINCE (North coast) 

 Baracoa, Santana and Jaimanitas Rivers 

 Almendares River (salty end) 

 La Chorrera, Marianao Beach (along 

 coast 



Santa Fe, Jaimanitas, Cojiraar, Bacurac- 

 anao, Guanabo (extensive stretches of 

 beach and coast with mossy tracts, 

 shoals and reefs) 



Lane snapper, muttonfish 

 Morro crab 



Grey snapper, yeXiowtail 



Important fisheries 



Enormous schools of Nassau groupers 



spawn Dec. - Jan. 

 Muttonfish, lane snapper 

 Redhind, rockhina, niggerfish 

 Sessies, silk and red snappers, others 

 Shallowwater species of fish 

 Muttonfish, yellowtail, grey snapper 



Croaker, snook, pompano, hardhead 



croaker 

 Clams and cockle 

 Chelonians 



Muttonfish, yellowtail, lane snapper, 

 goatfish, inferior fishes 



Cojimar 



Pajonal 



Breeding streams, especially at mouths 



Mullet, pompanos, croaker, etc. 



Muttonfish and lane snapper runsj yellow- 

 tail, niggerfish, redhind, Nassau 

 grouper, others 



Fisheries scarce owing to lack of keys, 

 but sportsmen fish sardine, barrd, 

 redhind, niggerfish, canary, rock- 

 hind, yellowtail and muttonfishj 

 schools of striped tunny and alba- 

 core in winter, kingfish and 

 mackerel all year round 



Runs of albacore, striped tunny, golden 

 dolphin, deepwater escolar (ruost- 

 tug pretiosas) 



Run of muttonfish 



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