The price of seafood rises due to high demand in Mazatlan

Sinaloa.- The increase in seafood consumption has been registered at the same time as a slight increase in its prices, acknowledged Norma Leticia Beltrán Flores, partner of the Union of Shrimp Farms of the first table of the city of Mazatlán.La merchant indicated that until yesterday the sales of seafood were at 80 percent, He said local people have been purchasing seafood for the New Year’s Eve dinner, while national tourists have been shopping to take to their places of origin a day after they have spent the last day of the year at the port. He acknowledged that consumption is made by citizens, despite the increase from 10 to 15 pesos that have registered the prices of these products.  Regarding the cost of shrimp, he said that citizens can take it from 100 to 300 pesos per kilo. As for the cooked octopus, he commented that the fourth has a value of 130 pesos, while the crab pulp is at 250 pesos per kilo and the lobster is between 150 and 180 pesos, depending on the size. Read more: Doctors are concerned about citizen relaxation in Mazatlan in the face of Covid-19Other seafood, he said that they are the snail, whose price is 120 pesos per kilo and the axe callus, which currently its cost is through the roof: one thousand 200 pesos, which is scarce.    Man raffles his truck to pay for his operation and the winner returns it to him

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