Fishermen from San Felipe in Mexico will seek to break into alternative markets, where they can trade totoaba
Totoaba
Mexico
Published Feb 15, 2022
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The fishermen will look for other countries where they can trade. Due to the impossibility of selling their product in the United States, fishermen from San Felipe will look for other countries where they can market it, as has happened with other Mexican agricultural products, and which have found very good acceptance in alternative markets.
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ALEJANDRO DOMINGUEZ. THE VOICE FROM THE BORDER. The foregoing was stated by Lorenzo Guadalupe García Carrillo, president of the Federation of Riverside Fishermen of San Felipe, in the face of the fishing embargo imposed by the neighboring country, in the face of Mexico's inaction due to the indiscriminate and illegal capture of the totoaba, as well as the almost imminent extinction of the vaquita marina. García Carrillo commented that it is not the same to sell the product of the sea in the national market since they buy it at a much lower price compared to when they exported to the United States. He stressed that due to the above, they want to recover the United States market, but for this to be possible, the totoaba fishery must be released. "If totoaba fishing is regulated and profit can be made from it, then the clandestine nets would be removed and the vaquita marina would be protected." Until now they have not stopped, and they have had to resort to an amparo lawsuit to be ...
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