FISHERIES AND MARKET FOR FISHERY PRODUCTS IN MEXICO, ETC. 85 



American firms who desire to establish or increase a market for 

 fishery products in this district are advised to communicate, prefer- 

 ably in the Spanish language, with the principal wholesale importers 

 in this line and the principal commission agents in the provision lines. 

 Since many fishery products are imported into this district via 

 Habana, which is understood to be a much more important market 

 for these products, any general agency or importing house for the 

 entire island should, of course, be established at that place. 



SANTIAGO. 



[By Harold D. Clum, consul, January 24, 1922.] 



There are no fisheries in this district, as the term is generally under- 

 stood. Fish are not exported nor are they caught in large quantities 

 and cured. The fish caught in the vicinity of Santiago are not suffi- 

 cient in quantity to meet local demands, and some are shipped in by 

 express from Manzanillo. Fish are not plentiful in the market of any 

 town in this district, with the exception of Manzanillo, and even there 

 fishing is not an industry of considerable importance. The fishing 

 is done mostly with lines from small motor boats, sailboats, and row- 

 boats, and the principal varieties caught are the red snapper and 

 Spanish mackerel. Some seine and trap fishing is done in the ports. 

 The fish imported into this district are principally cured cod, herring, 

 and mackerel, and salmon and sardines in tins. The following tables 

 show the imports of the principal ports of the district in 1918 and 

 1919, from statistics published by the Cuban Government. Figures 

 for 1921 are not yet available nor are complete figures for 1920 except 

 as to imports from the United States. 



1 1920 statistics furnished by the Santiago customhouse show 8,692,859 pounds, gross weight, valued at 

 $1,086,978, for Santiago. 



