Mexico: Fishermen are looking for other alternatives as there is no shrimp

Published 2020년 10월 26일

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Recent low shrimp catches have forced fishermen in Tóbari Bay, Sonora, to seek other species such as crab and scale fish. Aureliano Aldama, president of the National Confederation of Fishing Cooperatives, highlighted the dire situation, mentioning that crab traps are being used and fishermen are being forced to go out to sea to find schools of other fish. They are considering other capture alternatives as shrimp catches have been poor, with the maximum catch being only 20 to 30 kilograms per panga.

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ARIANNA MONTEVERDE. UNIRADIO NEWS. CIUDAD OBREGÓN, Sonora. The low shrimp catches that have occurred in recent weeks have led fishermen to look for other species of scale and crab, since they have not been able to afford the investment made at the beginning of the crustacean harvest. Aureliano Aldama, president of the National Confederation of Fishing Cooperatives, stressed that the situation is complicated, since in recent weeks there have been very few catches of the so-called 'pink gold' in the Tóbari Bay and the fishermen are desperate. Crab traps have begun to be placed, he indicated, in addition to the fact that fishermen have to go out into the open sea to ...

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