The Car­li Bay Fish Fes­ti­val re­ceived a time­ly in­jec­tion of cash to the tune of $100,000 from the Pro­man Group which op­er­ates at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate. The cheque was hand­ed over to the Car­li Bay Fish­er­men As­so­ci­a­tion at the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce fa­cil­i­ties on Cam­den Road.

Col­lis Williams, man­ag­er at Pro­man, said the com­pa­ny which con­trols IPS, Methanol Hold­ings and De­n­o­vo among oth­ers, plans to share what it can with fence­line com­mu­ni­ties and take an ac­tive role in up­com­ing events.

Pres­i­dent of the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce Ram­c­hand Ra­jbal Maraj said the event comes off on June 29 and has a bud­get of $150,000. He said a large chunk of the bud­get will go to­wards pay­ing for po­lice, se­cu­ri­ty and fire ser­vices.

The fes­ti­val will com­mem­o­rate St. Pe­ter’s Day and will be­gin with a ser­vice bless­ing of the boats and fish­er­men. Booths will fea­ture seafood and fo­cus on cul­ture.

Maraj said the event is aimed at pro­mot­ing do­mes­tic tourism as Car­li Bay is an unas­sum­ing for­eign ex­change gen­er­a­tor due to an un­like­ly source, the cut­lass­fish. The fish­ing com­mu­ni­ty has a boun­ti­ful sup­ply of the preda­to­ry fishm, al­so known as the large head hair­tail.

It has a dis­tinc­tive ap­pear­ance with a long, eel-like body and is sil­ver. Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 85 boats with an av­er­age of four crew­men have cut­lass fish as their main catch due to its abun­dance in the area.

Car­li Bay fish­er­men have tapped in­to a huge mar­ket for cut­lass­fish in Chi­na and Mi­a­mi.