THE FISHERIES AND FISHEIg RESOURCES OF EL SALVADCR 



IMTRODUCTION 



the fisheries and fishery industries of El Salvador were studied, in August 1942, as a 

 part of a survey of the entire Caribbean area made by a Mission of the United States Govern- 

 ment under a cooperative arrangement between the United Stated Department of the Interior, 

 Fish and Wildlife Service and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. The 

 Mission was under the direction of Reginald H. Fiedler, Chief of the Division of Fishery 

 Industries, Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior, and the 

 field party in El Salvador consisted of Uilton J. Lobell, Fishery Bigineer and Clarence R. 

 Lucas, Fishery Economist of the Service, 



While the Mission was interested primarily in the countries having a Caribbean coastline, 

 EI Salvador was visited to obtain comparative data for the Pacific coast area. 



EL Salvador is the staallest and most densely populated Republic in Middle America. The 

 soil is extensively cultivated and the econany is agricultural. An excellent system of rail 

 and hi^way transpoirtaticn exists, and there are fishery resources on the coast which could 

 supply all national requirements. Fish, however, is not now consumed in ar^y appreciable 

 quantity away fron. the immediate coast. 



Note: The Mission expresses its appreciation to Senor don Luis Alfonso Duran, President 

 of the Salvadorian Commission of Inter-American Development, to Dr. Rafael Lima and Sr. Alberto 

 Monterey Sol, ■vrtio accoii5)anied the investigators, and to many others who sissisted in carrying 

 out the fact-finding program. 



Thanks are also expressed to the United States Diplomatic Mission in El Salvador for the 

 cooperation extended. 



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