Crab fishermen denounce impacts due to drought in the Atasta Lagoon, Mexico

FOR THIS! CAMPECHE. The levels of the aquifers in the Atasta Peninsula are falling at an accelerated rate, and the authorities ignore their requests. CAMPECHE. Due to the dry season, the lagoons that surround Atasta Pueblo where fishermen arrive with their boats to fish the crab have run out of water and this affects due to low production, said the social manager and fisherman of that town Antonio Alcocer Heredia . He pointed out that currently with the dry lagoon the fishermen barely bring 10 kilos of crab with shell, a species that they pay between 30 to 35 pesos per kilo by intermediaries, while the kilo of pulp is 130 pesos, and they do not recover the investment of gasoline, which is 15 liters, at a cost of 330 pesos, because with the crab in the shell that they bring, it is equivalent to between 300 and 350 pesos. He added that the fishermen of Atasta Pueblo for years have asked the state government for contributions in the dry season to have other work alternatives. "We do ...