US to extend fishing embargo to Mexico for null protection to vaquita marina

Published 2020년 6월 12일

Tridge summary

Mexican fishermen are facing a crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic and potential trade restrictions from the United States, prompted by the government's inaction to save the endangered vaquita porpoise. Environmental groups are urging the Trump administration to use the Pelly Amendment to ban the purchase of fish and shellfish from Mexico. This could result in a fishing embargo affecting 17 Mexican coastal states, which would have significant economic implications as the United States is a major buyer of Mexico's seafood products. The Pelly Amendment empowers the President of the United States to impose economic sanctions on countries involved in illegal and unregulated fishing.

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Original content

The perfect storm falls on the fishermen of Mexico, who are experiencing a severe crisis due to the Covid-19 health emergency, and who could shortly face new trade restrictions by the United States for the export of their products, due to the nullity. action of the government of our country to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction. Environmental organizations, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Animal Welfare Institute are trying to force the Donald Trump administration to make a decision on its lawsuit filed since 2014, to prohibit the purchase of all fish and shellfish caught in Mexico, based on the so-called Pelly Amendment. In this way, the current fishing embargo against our country that weighs on the Gulf of California region, habitat of the vaquita marina, would extend to the 17 coastal states of the Mexican Republic. This would have devastating economic impacts, since 44.2 percent of Mexico's export fishing goes to the United States market, which is our main ...

Source: MXagronoticias