Mexico: Lobster ban ends in the Pacific Ocean

2000Agro/Editorial The Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) reported that this Tuesday, September concluded the ban on blue (Panulirus inflatus), green (Panulirus gracilis) and red (Panulirus interruptus) in waters of federal jurisdiction of the Pacific Ocean, including the Gulf of California. In the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), The federal agency indicated that the agreement had a modification for the second occasion and the closed seasons and zones for those species were established marine. He indicated that the lobster fishery is carried out mainly in Baja California and Baja Southern California, where national production reaches 65 percent of the total, and it is one of the fisheries of greatest socioeconomic importance for this area due to the economic impact and the direct and indirect jobs it generates. Based on this and the technical opinion of the National Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Inapesca), Sader pointed out that there is no ...