Fishing industry will also suffer

Sugar is not the only major industry to be touched by Keith. Tourism of course will suffer on San Pedro and Caye Caulker and so will another economic activity: fishing. Bobby Usher of the Northern Fisheries Cooperative told News Five that his co-op’s receiving station at Caye Caulker has been destroyed and so have most skiffs and motors belonging to fishermen. In addition most lobster traps around the cayes have been scattered and buried. No estimates have been made, but the losses in the coming months and next year should be substantial for both lobster and conch producers. Usher says that fishermen in the south whose waters were not affected will have to try and take up some of the slack.