Creole mojarra in danger in Mexico due to indiscriminate fishing

FRANCISCO URIBE and JOEL RUBIO. TABASCO NEWS. Last Friday, during a tour of Morelos; President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took advantage of the occasion to make a series of recommendations of little-known traditional dishes that, according to his opinion, are “succulent”, among them the mojarra tilapia and tenguayaca, native to Tabasco. Instead, he did not suggest buying the species from China. However, in Tabasco, the Creole mojarra species (pinta, palette, castarrica, tilapia, fil, bobo and tenguayaca), are in danger of extinction, due to overexploitation and the presence of the so-called devil fish, revealed the cooperative fishing, Mauricio de la Cruz Magaña. "It is very difficult to capture Creole mojarras, there are almost none in the lagoons and rivers of the entity, overfishing is great," he added. A couple of years ago, the National Institute of Ecology (INE), carried out a study in the Los Ríos region, that is, an ichthyological sampling in the municipalities of ...