Preparing for the capture of abalone in Mulegé

Published 2022년 2월 10일

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The article reports that the abalone fishing ban in Baja California Sur, Mexico, has ended, but cooperatives will not start their operations until March or June, in order to ensure the product's development and weight. However, the National Fisheries Institute has not yet delivered the quotas due to a lack of resources and personnel. The season is expected to be successful, but poaching and climate change are threats to the availability of the resource. Abalone is canned and exported to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. Cooperatives invest their own funds in surveillance to combat poaching.

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ELIAS MEDINA. THE SOUTH CALIFORNIAN. Officially the ban has ended, but most of the cooperatives will start their activities in the month of March. LA PAZ, Baja California Sur. (OEM-Informex). Although the abalone ban officially ended on February 1, the cooperatives dedicated to this fishery will start until the end of March and others until June, waiting for the product to reach the best conditions of development and weight. In addition to the above, the quotas approved by the National Fisheries Institute have not yet been delivered, due –among others- to the lack of resources and personnel of that institution, in charge of carrying out the evaluations to determine the availability of the biomosa. . Among fishermen there are good expectations for the season that ends in August, however, it is not ruled out that, as in other fisheries, the available resource may be affected by poaching that has been out of control for the last three years, derived of the withdrawal of official ...

Source: Inforural