Mexico suspends farmed shrimp imports from Central America, Honduras has lost $7 million

The Mexican government recently announced a suspension of imports of farmed shrimp from Central America. This decision has brought huge challenges to Central American farmed shrimp exporting countries, including Honduras. Javier Amador, representative of the Honduras Aquaculture Association (ANDAH) Confirmed that the Honduran aquaculture industry has lost $7 million due to Mexican import restrictions on farmed shrimp. The Honduras Tribune reported on February 5 that Amador said: “Our cooperation with Mexico has had a bad start in 2024. We hope that the problem can be solved because it is related to food security. There are at least 20,000 people in southern Honduras. direct jobs and 120,000 indirect jobs are dependent on shrimp farming." Amador also revealed that representatives of Honduran shrimp farmers and their lawyers will go to Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, in the near future to try to resolve Mexico’s import restrictions on Honduran farmed shrimp through ...