The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

There is especially high demand in foreign markets for tuna, shark, lobster and shrimp.

An estimated 250 million in marketable lobster is lost each year from ghost fishing .

There were also 130 boats missing, 18 transport boats were destroyed and many lobster storage freezers were also lost.

Boys mostly go to the sea in the lobster boats just after they complete the options for schooling available to them.

The joint projects would include trade and training activities, development of sheep breeding and the expansion of the fishery industry, in particular fish, lobster and shrimp farming.13

We were freaks lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire, spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal, but at night, while the others slept, we kept walking the tightrope.

This area is a hub in the narcotics route into North America, and this constitutes, along with sea diving for lobster and other molluscs, the only source of income for the population of La Mosquitia whose extended family society cannot properly cope with the demands placed upon it by these two industries.