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156 R. BALTASIU & O. BULUMAc & G. SĂPunaru
agriculture, apiculture, constructions and silviculture. Because of its
opening to razim lake, Jurilovca and Sarichioi have had, along the
decades, fishing as their primary occupation. In present days, Jurilovca
houses a fishing base and a fish canning factory which, up until not so
long ago, managed to involve most of the working male population. In
the case of slava cercheză, though, agriculture is the main domain which
absorbs most of the working force, a great part of the fertile land being
divided between four large agricultural co-operative societies. Agriculture
is practiced individually only on personal scale (in the yard) or where the
land has not been bought by a large owner.
the lippovans are known as skilled craftsmen in the domains of
utilities and constructions – during the communist era, they were called
‘bearded excavators’.
Constructions are connected with the general cycle of the working
force migration, more prominent in villages that have no other potential
(such as those from Dobruja), having associated, especially lately, both
a sub cycle of returning, in which a small part of the youth who have left
the village return and invest in personal assets, and some open businesses.
From a demographic viewpoint, external migration involves entire families
(husband-wife, along with their children), so no problems arise from
leaving children home alone in their village (with 2–3 exceptions in each
of the investigated villages).
likewise, especially in the localities situated within Dobruja, apiculture
is also practiced, which brings acceptable revenues (slava cercheză and
slava rusă from the villages investigated). Fishing as a profession registered
a spectacular resurgence – according to locals – through the rebuilding of the
fish industry in Jurilovca, in 2000, when they “gave way for concessions” –
entrepreneurs had all the interest to “populate the lake” and invest in
processing – Jurilovca owning one of the most modern factories in eastern
europe. After 2004, when the concessions were canceled, no one invested
in the lake anymore and from then on, the number of fishermen (authorized
physical persons) has drastically reduced from nearly a thousand persons to
150–200, the quantity of fish decreasing considerably.
“Deregulation as a result of overregulation and oversight” – in the
Danube there are approximately six control authorities, including police
authorities which led, in the end, to an increase in poaching, asserted our
collocutors with no exception. through the drastic decrease of the main
economic resource – fish –, the social order is subject to visible tensions.