Pescador
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License purchase.
I post about this issue frequently but it needs to be covered again. When you are coming to Baja California Sur (which is from Guerrero Negro to
Cabo) please either buy your license locally or from http://www.bajasursportfishing.com If you buy your license from a tackle shop or travel organization, the money either ends up in Ensenada or
Mexico City.
PESCA which is a division of FONATUR, is doing what they can with enforcement of the laws and needs your support for enough monies to operate
effectively. Not only are they really going all out with the tournaments and sport fishing in BCS but they are staffing the enforcement boats and it
is starting to show some effect.
This week they caught a long liner from Guaymas, in the area just off of Punta Chivato. When they boarded the boat they found 300 dorado, 25
billfish (marlin and sailfish) numerous sharks and rays and two turtles. Instead of sending them back to Guaymas to face dubious charges because of
political connections, they have the boat and hauled the fishermen to La Paz to go to jail and face federal charges. This is a major event but they
tell me pleadingly that they need your help to make it happen. Now they could be going from fishing area to fishing area begging for monies but they
feel with the share of license money, they can do the job.
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Russ
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Jim, I would be happy to make a donation to the local Pesca. Do you know of a good way to help them out that way?
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Pescador
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Yes, I do. My contact is Jose Adrian Rosas Romero, Cell 615-104-5226. He speaks english and is a wonderful man. He spent the whole day friday
selling fishing licenses at the tournament sign up at the Community Center. He lives in Mulege.
Another thing of great interest is the new Governor and the director of PESCA are trying to hammer out final details of a closure for all commercial
boats (meaning your friends the seiners) and they will not be allowed in Santa Inez Bay from Punta Conception to Punta Chivato. The Governor is
totally in favor of this and of course so is the director in La Paz.
You can also make donations directly if you go to the www.bajasursportfishing.com website and there is a place to do that.
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rts551
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Do you know if the arrest was covered by the media? I could not find it in the Mexican news.
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BigBearRider
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Thanks for posting about the BCS arrest. I will make a donation.
I hope BC and Sonora are cracking down equally hard re vaquita and totoaba. Read a disturbing story about a smuggler who got a ridiculously small
sentence in the US for smuggling hundreds of totoaba bladders with a value in the millions.
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Pescador
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I think it will not be in the paper until they are arraigned.
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Russ
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"You can also make donations directly if you go to the www.bajasursportfishing.com website and there is a place to do that."
I couldn't find a way to make a donation on the web page.
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BigBearRider
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I also couldn't find how to donate. There's a reference to donations on the main page, but I failed to find a way to donate.
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