Tudor Hubati, local councilor in the Sulina Local Council, former officer in the Border Police.
The general pattern is this: the man from the Delta is the fisherman who fishes, drinks, sleeps and that’s about all he can do. In reality, the Delta involves many more categories of people. Many more categories of people, who live in many ways. Starting from, let’s say, the initial segregation, in which some villages were farmers, other villages were livestock breeders, other villages were fishermen.
Yes, if we take it that way, we have Letea [village], which dealt with agriculture, Rosetti, which dealt with livestock breeding and Periprava, Caraorman, Sfântu Gheorghe, which dealt mainly with fishing.
Then there is Sulina, which was practically the industrialized city in the Delta. And here things are a bit more complex and different, because here we are not talking about the traditional population or the historical population of the Delta, but about an amalgam of nationalities and not only, nationalities and people from various regions of Romania, who came here, lived here for about 30-40 years, took over part of the culture and traditions of the Delta and did something else.
Sulina is something else than what the traditional Delta is and this is also related to the specifics of industrialization. The people of Sulina started fishing and tourism later than those in the rest of the Delta. They were people with jobs, they were people who were engaged in other activities, so when the fishing wave came, it found them in a different state.
