LA PAZ, Baja California Sur. (OEM-Informex). Although the abalone ban officially ended on February 1, the cooperatives dedicated to this fishery will start until the end of March and others until June, waiting for the product to reach the best conditions of development and weight.
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ELIAS MEDINA. THE SOUTH CALIFORNIAN. Officially the ban has ended, but most of the cooperatives will start their activities in the month of March. In addition to the above, the quotas approved by the National Fisheries Institute have not yet been delivered, due –among others- to the lack of resources and personnel of that institution, in charge of carrying out the evaluations to determine the availability of the biomosa. . Among fishermen there are good expectations for the season that ends in August, however, it is not ruled out that, as in other fisheries, the available resource may be affected by poaching that has been out of control for the last three years, derived of the withdrawal of official support for inspection and surveillance tasks. Another factor is climate, with experiences such as the one recorded in 2009 and which lasted until 2016, when abalone populations were severely decimated by a climatic phenomenon that brought a lack of oxygen to the water and which in ...
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