Shrimp ban periods in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea modified until 2024

2000Agro/Redacción The Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) announced the new dates for the seasons and areas of ban on commercial shrimp fishing in marine waters and the estuarine lagoon systems of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Through the National Commission for Aquaculture and Fisheries (Conapesca) and based on the technical opinion of the Mexican Institute for Research in Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture (IMIPAS), this measure modifies the agreement published on April 30 of this year in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF). That document established the temporary ban on the capture of all species of shrimp in marine waters under federal jurisdiction of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, starting at 00:00 hours on May 1, 2024 and until 18:00 hours on August 15, 2024, in the area that extends from the border with the United States, in Tamaulipas, to the mouth of the Coatzacoalcos River, in Veracruz. The new provision ...