Time for Reckoning/Vaquita

[joanC]

It appears there will be, very soon, a total ban on Mexico exporting shrimp and other sea food for it's limp efforts to protect the vaquita. Mexico has avoided most sanctions over the years by telling the world what it wants to hear, while at the same time doing nothing.

Some will say a ban will only hurt the small operator, and his family. I say bueno: it's the small operator who has continued to fish in prohibited waters, using prohibited gear. Accountability for most everything in Mexico is unknown. It's time for at least a small change.

 

[Jungle Jim]

We can always buy that overpriced tasteless land locked farm raised shrimp fed on pelletized human feces sold at every restaurant and grocery store in the FUSA.

 

[joanC]

Our family, and friends, prefer farm shrimp. As for land locked shrimp, we aren't clear on what that might be (unless you are talking about fresh water shrimp) but suggest you might want to get out more and learn how shrimp is farmed on the west coast in natural salt water, eating all the same things as wild shrimp. You obviously haven't been sold overpriced frozen Mexican shrimp that reeks of ammonia when it thaws. So you know, that signifies it's well beyond it's expiration date.

 

[Old55]

The fish camps now are controled by the cartels.Support of local fishing is pretty much support of cartels.
Hey it is tough when you know your friends of 20 years and their families in the artisan fishing communities are the problem and the victims.The big outboard motor advances since the 60s has played a part too.