Honduras Fishing

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Honduras significantly developed its shrimp industry during the 1980s and in the Latin American market was second only to Ecuador in shrimp exports by 1991. In 1992 shrimp and lobster jumped to 12 percent of export earnings. Shrimp contributed US$97 million in export sales to the economy in 1992--an increase of 33 percent over the previous year. The industry was dependent, however, on larvae imported from the United States to augment its unstable natural supply. Technicians from Taiwan were contracted by large producers in 1991 to help develop laboratory larvae, but bitter feuds developed between independent shrimpers and the corporations. Local shrimpers charged that corporate methods were damaging the environment and destroying natural stock through destruction of the mangrove breeding swamps. Corporate shrimp farmers then began to move their operations farther inland, leaving local shrimpers to contend with diminished natural supplies on the mosquito-infested coast.

 
You can read more regarding this subject on the following websites:

Fishing in Honduras - The Worldwide Fishing and Travel Guide
THE 5 BEST Honduras Fishing Resorts - Oct 2018 (with
Honduras - Fishing Honduras | Fishing International
Honduras Fishing Charters - FishingBooker
Best time for Fishing in Honduras 2018 - Best - Rove.me


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