US to extend fishing embargo to Mexico for null protection to vaquita marina
Published Jun 19, 2020
Tridge summary
The perfect storm falls on the fishermen of Mexico, who are experiencing a severe crisis due to the Covid-19 health emergency, and who could shortly face new trade restrictions by the United States for the export of their products, due to the nullity. action of the government of our country to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction.
Original content
Environmental organizations, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Animal Welfare Institute are trying to force the Donald Trump administration to make a decision on its lawsuit filed since 2014, to prohibit the purchase of all fish and shellfish caught in Mexico, based on the so-called Pelly Amendment. In this way, the current fishing embargo against our country that weighs on the Gulf of California region, habitat of the vaquita marina, would extend to the 17 coastal states of the Mexican Republic. This would have devastating economic impacts, since 44.2 percent of Mexico's export fishing goes to the United States market, which is our main buyer. The seafood that is sold to the United States is, among others, shrimp, tuna, lobster, octopus, crab and clam, weighing 97 thousand 131 tons and a value of more than 633 million dollars annually, according to the Bulletin of Foreign Trade in Aquaculture and Fisheries 2018. According to Sarah Uhlemann, director of the international ...
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