Article A18 · Book 1 · Scrapbook page p.16
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TRINIDAD GUARDIAN, Thursday, January 25, 1973. Page 9
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[Photo: BAL RAMPAUL]
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Because of the lack of cold storage facilities the fishermen sometimes had to sell out at ridiculously low prices, though some boasted of dispatching their regular catch of 800 to 1,000 pounds at between 90 cents and $1.00 per pound.
This particular bunch of fishermen did not have very much faith in the co-operative since they felt that it was being managed by people who were not deeply knowledgeable in the fishing industry.
"Its trading practices, low dodges and such prevented it from being able to deal to the greater profit of its members," one said.
Cedros people boasted of their "Reds," who runs Amber Food Service, which provides another source of employment for Cedrosians.
They are proud of Amber
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and its products and boasted of the particular type of salt fish which Amber produces, but which has not caught on in Trinidad and Tobago.
As large turtles rotted in the sand near the jetty (dumped because the trucks were overloaded), and a young policeman "cooled it" not far off in the bay, as the Catholic Church towered over the sleepy, silent "town," and as a juke-box sounded somewhere off, one wondered at the other picture of Cedros that was emerging.