Camagüey fishes more

By:Ernesto Pantaleón Medina

According to the experts, one in the cheapest ways of obtaining of protein of animal origin is the fishing of fresh water that the Cubans have given in calling Acuiculture, and that contributes thousands of tons annually, so much stops the population's food like to export, since the fish meat has great demand in numerous countries.

In the county of Camagüey, the most productive reservoir in the country, the prey Jimaguayú is located, with more than 200 million cubic meters of capacity, volume that transforms it into one of the biggest acuatories in the island.

The capture program for the year in this fishing unit ascended l 260 tons, calculates that its 94 workers reached last weekend, and that it is equal to almost 30% of the total foreseen for the county in the current one 2009.

Although still distan much of equaling their figure record (4 l98 tons) that dates of1997, it is meritorious the balance of January to the date in Jimaguayú, since the installation suffered severe damages for the hurricanes of September and November of the 2008.

During months, the collective simultaneó the fishing tasks with the constructive ones, Laiglert refers Yordis, the secretary of the Union of Communist Youths in the center, and adds that already recovered the roofs of the housings, the dining room and the main ship of reception of the fish, at the same time that superior conditions were created for the lodging and the attention to the workers.

In fact the improvements in that sense, rebound in a direct way in the productive results, Gustavo Álvarez relates, one of the most experienced fishermen who remembers that some years ago lived in ranches with wooden walls and palm roof, without conditioners of air and the fans with which they count at the present time that allow them to rest after the exhausting days among the water, whipped by the plague of mosquitos.

"It is difficult this work - Aryan Lázaro tells us, one of the most outstanding in the capture of fish-but we know how to overcome to the exhaustion, to the cold and the rain that affect us in many occasions, because the important thing is to produce food, and we are stimulated by a correct salary politics and for the best conditions of life."

In these moments the 4 groups in that the labor force of Jimaguayú is divided, insist in a special commitment of 300 tons extra, what would allow them to grow in some a hundred tons in connection with the real of the precedent year.

The program of the Acuiculture in the county of Camagüey for the current one 2009 are of 4 380 tons, of which have surrendered until today some 4 200.