El-Mina or El Mina, is a coastal city in Northern Lebanon. El-Mina occupies the location of the old Phoenician city of Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city. It acts as the harbour city for modern neighbouring Tripoli, situated 5 km to the east. El-Mina is the city with the largest number of islands surrounding it, along the Levantine coastline. It has seven islands, the closest, the Abdul Wahab Island can be visited by crossing a bridge over the sea. The farthest island, ‘Ramkin’, is 10 kilometers away from the coast, and has a lighthouse. Four of the islands have been declared as natural reservations, to help breed fish, and preserve their natural habitat.
El Mina is mainly a services oriented city, much like most of Lebanon, the services sector is the main source of economic income of the city, and employs the largest number of people. Restaurants and cafes are abundant along the city streets, servicing tourists and locals alike, who frequent the “”Corniche”” during afternoons and weekends. The second most important sector of the city’s economy is the fish industry. As a consequence to the exposure of the city to the sea, the inhabitants have been fishermen and seamen by trade for centuries. The fish industry employs the second largest number of citizens of El Mina, and contributes considerably to the city economy. The city has a mini harbor for fishing boats that hosts a considerable number of small individual fishing boats. The city’s fish market is well known by Lebanese from all over the country. Albeit, the fishermen failed to modernize and incorporate the industry into a well established and strong source of economic wealth, and the combined output of the fishermen fails to supply even the local community, often forcing fish traders to import frozen fish from Turkey. In addition, the lack of heavy equipment and deep sea fishing ships has left this sector decades behind.

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