There have been a number of positive stories like this one about the Cuban regime’s enlightened move to ban the hunting of sea turtles. Alas, the story gives the impression that the turtles are hunted by the natives to make combs and the like.
The real story is buried in a sentence toward the end of the article. The boldface is mine.
For many years, Cuba had a legal fishery quota of 500 hawksbills a year to keep up its export of turtle shells, but has finally acted on the pleas of conservationists.
Because whatever impression the article may create, any retraining the Canadians are going to give the fishermen will have little or no effect on the Cuban diet, as Cubans are not allowed to fish for their own consumption.
Score another one for the propaganda machine and the seemingly reptilian ability of the MSM to swallow anything.
…an island on the net without a bearded dictator
