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



Province and site 



Kind of fish and sea food 



San Juan and Buenavista Bays 



Frances Key (Pesquero Vie jo, Pesquero 



Nuevo, Las Almedinas, Cabezo de 



Gaditano) 

 Cienfuegos (shallow water) 



Guanaroca Lake 



Damaji River 



Jagua Bank (2, 10, 12 fathoms) 



Piedra del Sur, Campos, Gavilanes, Italos 



Guajimico River 



Casilda 



Manati River 

 Tunas de Zaza 



CAMAGUEY PROVINCE (North coast) 



k'uevitas 



Corona de Maternillo 



Boca Grande (Ballenates Key) 



Punta Alegre, Moron 





Leche Lake 



Cruces, Las Palmas, Playa Bonita, Punta 

 de Piedra, Saninal 



Morro crabs, reportedly best in Cuba 

 Nassau grouper, runs in thick conglomer- 

 ation. Shoals of sardines, oysters, 



frequent runs of deepwater shrimps 

 Irish porapano, rudderfish, pomacentrus 

 kyporusi, several varieties of 

 sardines, grunts, mullets for salting 

 Clams supply nation, shrimps 

 Shrimps 



Largest breeding grounds of grouper 

 on south coast of Cuba; tunny, alba- 

 core, striped tunny, jurel (carac 

 fallox) 

 Runs of muttonfish May - July 

 Black snapper 

 Lane snapper, yellowtail, cockeye pilot, 



round pompano, grunts, chaeto diptherua 

 Manatees, oysters, crawfish 

 Very large quantities of mullet, 

 anchovies, midget shrimps, eel, 

 joturus and da jus, sabalo (tarpon 

 atlanticus), biajaca (acarus fuscc— 

 maculatus), sable (lepturus). Out 

 into the deep water, skate, lebisa 

 (raja laevis), chucho (pteroplaste 

 micrara), obispo (myliobatis espi- 

 copus) 



Muttonfish, lane and grey snapper, 

 cubereta (lutjanus cubera), Morro 

 crab 



Nassau grouper 



Mother Pearl Oysters 



Cardenal, Mesopuon vorax, dog snapper, 

 cajisoto, peje pluma (calamus mega- 

 cephalus), doctorfish, female parrot, 

 shallowwater parrot, canarj* pompano, 

 mullet, Isabelita (angelicht bysci- 

 Liaris), Catalinete (chaeto dipterus), 

 jorobao (vomer setipinnus), tori to 

 (acanthostiacion quadricormis ) 



Manatees 



Chelonians 



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