Mexico: The collapse of fishing in Tamaulipas is accentuated
Mexico
Published Nov 11, 2020
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MIRNA HERNÁNDEZ. THE SUN OF TAMPICO. Production decreased 75% in the last 15 years, dismantled the sector's installed capacity by half and worsened the poverty of thousands of fishermen. TAMPICO, Tamaulipas.
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The abandonment of fishing research in high seas, brackish waters and lagoons worsens the collapse of the fishery for shrimp, crab and scale species in the Gulf of Mexico, whose production decreased 75% in the last 15 years, dismantled half the installed capacity of the sector and worsened the poverty of thousands of fishermen. The National Chamber of the Fishing and Aquaculture Industry, fishermen from the Regional Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Societies and former researchers from the Regional Center for Fisheries Investigators (CRIP) of Tampico warned that this productive sector reports an official abandonment as never seen before and in the interest of extreme austerity by the government, budgets for scientific exploration almost disappeared this year and are negligible for 2021. The biologist Sergio García Sandoval, former director of the CRIP in this port, stated that in the eighties, there was coordination between shipowners, fishermen and the federal government, ...
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