translated from Spanish: Government cares for fishermen in the face of fish deaths

Angostura, Sinaloa.- The mysterious death of dozens of fish in Playa Colorada, Angostura left fishermen concerned, so it was requested to have dependencies with this specialty to assess the problem, in which this day a study is being carried out to verify the reasons for this in order to identify the possible causes to prevent them from further presenting. The representative of the Ministry of Fisheries, Health Instances, Coepris, among other federal units, was gathered to inspect the problem in coastal areas, as well as for the surrounding aquaculture farms where low levels of oxygenation occur, said Cindy Rebeca Montoya Armenta, State coordinator of Conapesca, who added that after the studies implemented they could have the most accurate results of fish death. 
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Anselma Soto, Coepris Health Certification Representative, added that the work to be done by the unit is to take samples, as are some parameters to be sent to the state public health laboratory, which is located in the city of Culiacán.

Officials inspected the place where the fish appeared dead. / Photograph: THE DEBATE

“We occupy to see what we call healing which is harvesting, how to deposit it in pit and it is not advisable to consume it from dead fish,” I explain. He also said the results would depend on the lab’s times. Juan Ricardo Romero Peña, representative of the Fisheries Secretariat, mentioned that the initial inclusion of them as a unit was always to be close to the fishing sector to prevent and see what was happening so that we could help solve it. “At the instructions of the Secretary of Fisheries, Sergio Torres commissions Isapesca among others to come and see what is going on. It’s the shared concern of the clerk and the governor, where we’re seeing how to resolve it,” he said.

Original source in Spanish