88 U, S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



The fish products imported are dry-salted cod and salmon, sar- 

 dines, and some oysters and clams in tins. Owing to the fact that the 

 imported fish products consumed in this island, especially the codfish, 

 are chicHy purchased in Havana, no statistics of imports can be given. 

 The codiish are mostly the whole fish, containing the bones, packed 

 in 100-pound boxes, and originate in the United States, Norway, and 

 Nova Scotia. The American cod is a little the cheapest, the Nor- 

 wegian being of a little better quality and higher priced. The canned 

 salmon and canned oysters and clams are American, the sardines 

 mostly American, with some from Norway and Spain, which are 

 higher priced. There is no reexport of fish products. This island 

 has some trade with Grand Cayman, some cattle being imported 

 from that island, but it is understood that fish products imported 

 into the island mentioned are from Jamaica or the United States. 

 The merchants who deal in fish products in the Isle of Pines are gen- 

 eral merchants and grocers. 



As the bulk of the fish products consumed here is American, it 

 is not believed that much can be done to increase American trade in 

 these Imes. The population of the island in 1919 was 4,228. About 

 60 per cent of the inhabitants are Cuban citizens of the white race, 

 mostly poor or in quite moderate circumstances. Of the remaining 

 40 per cent about one-half are Americans and the other half negroes 

 of various nationalities. The American residents form, on the wnole, 

 the most prosperous class in the island. Agriculture, transportation, 

 and banking are mostly carried on by them. The number of well- 

 to-do people is therefore small, and there is not much demand for 

 expensive goods. 



HAITI. 



PORT AU PRINCE. 



[By Robert W. Longyear, vice consul, September 23, 1921.] 



The fishing industry, in common with other industries of Haiti, 

 is extremely primitive. There are no companies or combinations to 

 organize fishing on any scale. If a man lias a sailboat and a net, 

 he becomes a fisherman; and if he loses one or the other and can not 

 replace what he has lost he may become a farmer or a laborer. 

 However, since Haiti has a great coast line and since its waters 

 abound in fish it has a considerable proportion of its poorer popula- 

 tion engaged in the fishing trade. Just what proportion it is im- 

 possible to state, for there are no statistics available even for a 

 moderately accurate census. 



The principal local fishery products are restricted to the fish 

 themselves. No facilities for extracting or using by-products have 

 been developed. There are five kinds of fish that are sold in the 

 market fresh, as follows : Letaza, Saad (red snapper) , Bousse, La Lune 

 (moonfish), and sardine. Lobsters and shrimp are also among the 

 fishery products. 



Fishermen use nets and traps to get their produc ts. Both are of 

 native quality and workmanship, necessarily primitive and in- 

 efficient. The nets are the usual buoyed variety and the traps are 

 wicker-work mazes baited with a fish head at the interior. These 

 traps are about 4 feet square and 2 feet high and are lowered to the 

 bottom in a})out 12 feet of water, where they are left for an inde- 

 terminate period and then hoisted and emptied of all that may be 



