Camagüey, 5 apr. - Common denominators in the Empresa Pesquera Industrial Santa Cruz del Sur (EPISUR) are the love and vocation of its people for a decisive sector in the country’s economy and the commitment to move forward despite the obstacles.
The workers are seen united, building and overcoming difficulties, while getting ready to celebrate the national event for the Day of the Fishing Industry Worker, coming April 8, and recognize with the Distinction Aracelio Iglesias almost twenty workers for their more than 20 and 25 years of uninterrupted in the profession.
There are also the 50’s with so many stories to tell and bequeath to the new generations, so that they are young as Iriam Villafaña Parra, patron of the Envoy 17, and who, at 25 years of age, professes an infinite pride for being part of the sector.
The same one mentioned by Ana Maria Meléndez Pardo, a fishing production technician and secretary of the Basic Committee of the Union of Young Communists of the entity, which hosts a youth universe of more than 50 boys.
All, experience and youth, are seen these days in beautification, cleaning and motivated by achieving higher indicators, both union and productive, which made them worthy of the act for the day of the fishing worker.
In this result, the Industrial Business Unit (UEB) has an important weight, according to its director Juan Machado López, who explained that a collective of 384 workers is responsible for processing everything caught, say flakes, fish and seafood such as the oyster, the cobo, the shrimp and the sea cucumber.
She stressed that, as the deliveries of the fishing fleets are insufficient, they make productions of conformados, croquettes, hamburgers and canned, alternatives that, thanks to the linkages with the new actors of the economy and the state sector, foresee to exceed the total of 1254 tons of compliance of 2023.
A concept also defended by José Díaz Vidal, group leader of the Directorate of Industry, Quality and Marketing, and Roger Alfonso Pérezy, skipper of the railroad boat 117, specialized in catching scales, dedicated to fishing, first in aquaculture and now in EPISUR, a collective that does not throw the anchor if economy and attention to the people is concerned. (Gladys Dailyn Morera Cordero/ Radio Cadena Agramonte) (Photos: Facebook page of the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power of Santa Cruz del Sur and the author)
