Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 2:35:24 GMT -6
In Mexico, illegal fishing corresponds to 60% of the reported national production. According to data from the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) of Mexico, this data means that if in 2010 the production reported by the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Commission (CONAPESCA) for fishery products was 1.4 million tons, 840 thousand more resulted from illegal production.
Illegal fishing is the result of a series France Mobile Number List of non-compliance with legal provisions, the most frequent being not having a permit or concession to fish, prohibited fishing gear, fishing during closed seasons, in protected areas or on prohibited species.
In Mexico it is common to find advertisements for the sale of species that are actually cheaper than those advertised.
And in our country, there are no controls to avoid this. Although the laws establish requirements such as the notice of arrival of the merchandise, or the fishing log and guide so that fishermen and cooperatives keep records from the capture to the transfer to markets or distribution centers, however, this is not enough. to stop illegal fishing and control that during marketing there is no practice of exchanging products.
Illegal fishing and overexploitation of species
According to Animal Político, Luis Bourillón, representative of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in Mexico, “there is a black market where illegal fish is sold.”
The ideal, according to Pedro Zapata, from the Oceana organization, is to have authorized unloading points in Mexico.
However, "the vast majority of boats that fish in this country end up unloading and delivering their product to hundreds of thousands of points along the country's 11,000 kilometers of coastline, far from the eyes of any authority."
Illegal fishing includes the commercialization of protected species, or those that are at risk. As well as the use of techniques that increase bycatch, or that allow fishing quotas for certain species to be exceeded.
For Renata Terrazas, from Oceana, "that creates a very big problem for the sustainability of the seas, but also for legal fishermen, because they lose income, or they have to go out and fish even more, they have to increase their fishing effort."
It should be noted that within the same investigation it is revealed that in a visit to the Nueva Viga market, in CDMX, by Oceana specialists, several irregularities were found, such as the sale of an endangered species such as the hammerhead shark. , the sale of dorado that is only allowed for sport fishing, or that the sales signs gave confusing or erroneous information to consumers.