lagrimas85
AKA Carnac
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Sopa De Aleta De Tiburon, is where the fins go, over 100 chinese restaurant's alone in Mexicali and all of them serve it. Price in Mexico for the real stuff (there is fake soup sold also) about 8.00-15.00 dllrs a bowl, if I remember it was about 80.00 at the C-Fu Gourmet in Chandler a few years ago. Also served in the Chinese restaurants in Rocky Point.I wasn't going to post this, but...
Last trip to Lobos, we got back in from a fair day with a few chunky yellowtail and a decent grouper. Ted suggested we walk down the beach and check out what the pangueros had been catching. There were probably 15 pangas beached, cleaning fish. All kinds of fish. A few baqueta, some gold spots. A yellowtail here and there. But what amazed me the most were the sharks. Many, many sharks. Small sand sharks. The women were finning them on the beach and basically tossing the carcasses. A lot of them were pregnant and giving live birth. Little hand-sized sharks, freshly born, rolling in the surf line. Along with many eels. Snowflake eels, Morays, others I don't even know. Just tossed aside as bycatch.
I'm a fisherman. I have no problem with people catching or cleaning fish, but frankly? The sight of this made me sick to my stomach. Yeah, everybody needs to make a living, I know. But the sheer amount of waste being generated was incredible. I also know that it's nothing compared to the bycatch one shrimp boat generates.
Still, seeing all those sharks being finned and the babies struggling in the surf? Unbelievable. The Cortez is not the rich treasure chest it once was. The population has moved on to decimating species they wouldn't of bothered with in the past. And as the fishing gets worse, the need of the locals to take whatever they can catch only grows.
Very, very sad.
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