Sinaloa.- There is little movement in Bonfil Park, in Mazatlan, except for the netters who enlist the nets and exclusions for the next shrimp harvest. Sad faces can be seen in the few seamen who come to Bonfil every day in the hope of starting the preparation for when the ban is lifted. Francisco Javier Murillo stressed that last season was very short. The third wave of Covid-19 is preventing more sources of employment from opening up and this has fishermen desperate.
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The lack of support for fuel and the embargo on shrimp is going to cause fewer shrimp farmers to leave this season, which is detrimental to the sea workers. There are shipowners with 40 ships and only half of them will leave. Others with 26 ships and have planned that only 10 will go to the high seas, explain the netters, who fear an even more difficult scenario. Conapesca and Profepa staff take a tour to verify the equipment produced by the exclusionists and the networks comply with the law. And they are rechecked when they are already on the boats. Read more: Nafta case must be reviewed in Mazatlan: Deputy Flor Emilia GuerraIt is estimated that the ban will be lifted after 22 September. Every year the date has been postponed, the fishermen say.
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