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2010 Vigilance Reports from OC
Mar 3, 2010
2009 Year in Review (Hot Issues)
Dec 28, 2009
Hookah Permit Cancellations
Dec 15, 2009
Understand the law and report illegal fishing
Dec 11, 2009
How many times have you been in an anchorage and seen the pangeros come in with their hookahs and then watch them circle the edges of the bay harvesting fish by driving them into gill nets placed on the reefs or seen their boats at dusk and heard the compressors running at night as they harpoon sleeping fish on the reefs? Both of these types of fishing are now illegal in Mexico.
Panga longliners de Manzanillo - Why the sail fish are severely depleted (Hot Issues)
Aug 9, 2009
Panga longliners started about 1985 when about 200 permits were issued in Manzanillo for shark. The by catch of sailfish and dorado was about 90% of the total catch. These pangas were landing between 150-200 tons of Sailfish
EPO YELLOWFIN TUNA IN BIG TROUBLE
Jun 8, 2009
La pesca comercial del dorado sí afectará a BCS: Villavicencio (Hot Issues)
Mar 26, 2009
En BCS la captura del pez dorado seguirá reservada a pesca deportiva (Hot Issues)
Mar 24, 2009
La Paz, Baja California Sur.- El Congreso de la Unión estudia la posibilidad de liberar a la pesca comercial al dorado, pero no en Baja California Sur; la especie hasta ahora reservada, pero de alta demanda en el mercado alimentario.
300 New Boats (Hot Issues)
Feb 9, 2009
CONAPESCA has announced the possibility of building 300 boats, with the aim of detonating the development of fisheries in Mexico.
After the crisis of fuel subsidies, which showed the excess of fishing boats, what can we expect now with 300 boats more?
Old Websites for Archival Information (pdf)
Seawatch 1st Site (1994) 5.4MB
Seawatch 2nd Site (2000) 16MB
NEWSLETTER and ALERTS
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