Will we celebrate St. Nicholas Day without Bulgarian fish on the table?

After a week, we will celebrate one of the biggest Bulgarian holidays – St. Nicholas Day, which is traditionally welcomed with fish dishes on the table, but this year the table may be without Bulgarian fish, commented Nova TV. Fishermen from Ahtopol report an unusually poor catch, and the markets offer mainly imported fish from Greece, Norway, and the Mediterranean. Ahtopol is beautiful even in winter, but days before St. Nicholas Day, the fishermen's nets are empty. Only a few boats go out to sea, returning without the heavy catch usual for the season. Most of the vessels have already been moored on the shore. According to 80-year-old fisherman Todor Lyubenov, such a poor year has not happened before. "I have been in the sea for 65 years, and I have not remembered such a poor year as this one. Some anomaly has occurred in the sea. Maybe due to the cold spring," wonders Lyubenov. According to him, there were no favorable conditions for the hatching of the fish eggs, and the fish ...