http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/cuba/100525/condoms
Cuba's communist government is so paranoid about illegal departures to the United States that it strictly controls who can own or use boats, and Cubans who fashion crude watercraft out of scrap wood and Styrofoam face steep fines, or worse.
And so, living on an island but unable to have a boat, the fishermen use the cheap condoms to get them closer to the prized fish they wouldn't be able to reach otherwise. A good-sized red snapper may weigh six to 10 pounds and sell for $10 to $20 on Havana's black market. In a country where the average wage is less than $20 a month, it's no wonder contraceptive sales surge during peak fishing periods. :lulz:
When the only thing going for you is subsidized condoms... you make inventive fishing apparatus?