half of the lobster caught in central america, worth about $28 million annually, comes from fishermen in one country--nicaragua. >> along nicaragua's caribbean coast, lobster diving is thlargest industry, so there's a financial incentive for them to dive for lobster. right now, lobster divers are making somewhere between $2.50 to $3.50 per pound of lobster tail that they catch. and there are few other economic opportunities for miskito indians along the coast, and there's not a lot of educational and professional opportunities, uh, as well. >> there used to be so many lobsters that you could walk out into the sea and just f--fish them out by hand. and then the commercialization of lobster diving was introduced, and that sped up, you know, the depletion of the lobster stock closer to shore, and it's just moving deeper, and deeper, and deeper. and that, in turn, is causing thesinstances of decompression sickness, because these men are diving deeper,