Vaquita – Last Chance for the Desert Porpoise

(EL UNIVERSAL)
VERACRUZ.- The general director of (Federal Office of Environment Protection) Protected Areas and Species of the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection said the United States deals with the application of attachment to Mexican in exporting shrimp to the misuse of turtle excluder devices (DET).

In an interview in the context of training for inspectors in the states of the Gulf of Mexico on turtle excluder devices said that Mexico uses rudimentary methods for fishing, especially shrimp.

He said that throughout the country are carried out training for fishermen to update them on legal and technicians on the use of DET in the shrimp fishery.

However, Veracruz regretted that neighboring country experts have detected that simulates fishermen let open the turtle excluder devices, finding in them turtles. “In the municipality of Alvarado, US experts who are certified to export shrimp Mexico have found evidence that fishermen closed devices.

In this situation I urge fishermen to avoid this action because the United States could implement the embargo against Mexico in the export of shrimp for the fishing activity presents the life of the turtles. Camarena Lother arguments that the sanction can be up to 50000 minimum wages, when they use them with turtles. DET therefore should properly use the devices to safeguard marine life. It emphasized that experts from the United States require that fishing in Mexico be similar to that applied for them, ie, that there is similarity in the protection of the turtles.

From:

http://www.el-mexicano.com.mx/

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Catalina Lopéz Sagástegui has written 10 post in this blog.

A Scholar in Residence at UC MEXUS. She has worked with local fishermen implementing vaquita conservation programs in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico.

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