Hope prevails among Mazatlan riparians in Mexico despite few shrimp catches

JOSÉ GALARZA. DEBATE. Riparian fishermen trust that catches will maintain their level until November. Currently a kilo of lagoon shrimp costs from 90 to 95 pesos per kilo. SINALOA. The few catches of crustacean (up to 800 kilos per day) registered by the fishermen of the Huizache-Caimanero lagoon, in Mazatlán, do not discourage them from making up the shrimp harvest. Juan José Hernández, president of the Punta Poderosa Cooperative of the municipality of El Rosario, acknowledged that little product has been extracted from the body of water since the fishing season began on September 15. The leader of fishermen commented that the few quantities of shrimp that are caught in the body of water are compensated by their size. "It is practically little what is coming out, but its size has been good and that is what we are betting on, since we are taking little, but of very good quality." He assured that the measure presented by the product helps the people of the river a lot, because if ...