Dinner at Banana's
It’s lobster season in Cayman! And as I have recently discovered, the start of the season is actually a very much anticipated date here. Having lived here for the past 4 years, I actually did not know that there is a lobster season. Oh yeah, I do love lobster (even though when I lived in South Africa, I ate langoustine ever so often and only really came across lobster when I was on holiday, infrequently, in Mozambique). Apparently, though, the lobster season in Cayman runs from 1 December to 28 February (or 29 February if it is a leap year).
Lobster fishing is closely monitored here in Cayman, and the maximum fine for taking lobster out of any defined marine area within the Cayman Islands is $500,000 – not “chump” change by the stretch of the imagination.
This newly acquired knowledge actually got me kind of thinking that, although there are fishing laws back home in Zimbabwe aimed at preserving our famed bream and kapenta fish, the fines are not prohibitive and those that are in the industry merely consider the fines as a cost of doing business – if they are caught that is. Here, there really is a conscious effort to police the 9 months “off season” and the fishing industry, to a large extent follow the rules, there are always exceptions of course.
All that being said, I had a lovely lobster dinner today (please note – on the 4th of December) at a Banana’s restaurant, which is not your typical main stream restaurant but the chef there is really fantastic and the food is to-die-for. So for the next 3 months I will be a happy man!
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