Fishing In The Black Sea
The harbours of old peninsula towns like Nesebar, Pomorie and Sozopol remain clogged with the small boats that traditionally provided most local families with a livelihood - fishing . Although the numbers of full-time fishermen are in decline, most families still have access to a boat and augment their income by fishing in the coastal waters. The working year is dictated by the seasonal migrations of fish. Most activity takes place in the spring and autumn, when shoals of skumrii (mackerel) and palamudi (brown-striped tunny fish) pass along the Black Sea coast on their way between the waters of the Crimea and their wintering grounds in the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean. The hamsiya , or Black Sea anchovy, also makes fleeting appearances off the Bulgarian coast during its extensive circuits of the Black Sea, but the rest of the time people hunt barbun (mullet), safrid (scad), kalkan (turbot) and tsatsa (sprat) - piles of the latter, deep-fried and crispy, are a staple of coastal snack bars. In recent decades it's become increasingly difficult to make a living from fishing, due to the depletion of the Black Sea's stocks. Those with small fishing operations feel particularly threatened by the big state-owned fleets operating out of Burgas, and are agitating for a complete ban on trawling in coastal waters. Such a ban would help preserve the small-town economy of places like Pomorie and Sozopol, but may not be enough to save the Black Sea's fish.
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