Dr. José Raúl Rodríguez Rangel

CIENFUEGOS, August - Desperate efforts to keep the Cuban economy afloat, often by exploiting older industrial plants with obsolete technology, are creating new problems every day for the environment.

For example, an all-out push by the Fisheries Ministry to harvest shrimp in Batabanó, south of Havana, exhausted the resource in those waters.

Since the start of the crisis provoked by the end of Soviet subsidies in 1990, the shrimp and lobster seasons have not been observed. Exploitation goes on year-round with deleterious effects on the reproductive cycles of the species; biologists have noted not only reduced catches each year but also an increase in the number of juveniles which are not even suitable for export and are destined for the tourist trade within Cuba.

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