MEXICO – Strong shed for Lobster Fishery

The state Commissioner for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Dolphin Quesada Dominguez, reported the local fishing industry produced 450 tons of lobster season that began on July 1 and ended yesterday.

In an interview, he said that trapping level of crustacean generated an economic impact of over $ 200 million in profit of about 2,300 fishermen who participated in this fishery.

From this day, these fishermen, mostly located on the west coast of the entity entering into recess for the entry of force of the ban on lobster, although several are devoted to the fishing of other species of scale, he added. 'What there were some descompresionados divers who received immediate attention at the hospital where they Tizimín hyperbaric chamber and survived'He said. Quesada Dominguez explained that the species is caught in the waters of San Felipe, El Cuyo, Tizimín, Rio Lagartos and curator of Coloradas and in Dzilam Bravo and depend on the activity over two thousand 300 fishermen.

El producto se comercializa en el mercado nacional y en el extranjero, 'Is not very demanding on the local market so expensive that it would be a saucer', He said. He noted that the lobster is a resource that has to be closed for a few months, so your Biomass maintain good levels, as hundreds of families depend on their catch. He recalled that in the case of Mero began to capture the March 15, 2014 and entered into closed on 15 February, six thousand 400 tons were collected with an economic impact of about 300 million pesos. He said that this year the National Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (CONAPESCA) do not define a date for catching sea cucumber because it considers'the species has been pillaged all 2014 '. ‘Pero estaremos pendientes de cualquier anuncio de captura de Pepino, del cual hubo dos permisos en 2014. Esta pesquería es muy rentable pero también muy peligrosa, pues el año pasado hubo 15 fallecidos por compresión en su captura’, he added.

SOURCE: Yucatan.com.mx