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[*] posted on 5-22-2011 at 07:34 AM


Thank you Shari for the status on the scallops. Gotta learn from the past - for the fishermens' own good.
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[*] posted on 5-22-2011 at 08:31 AM


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excellent question and observation wilderone...currently this is a very hot topic here as the Mano de Leon fishery is vital to the fishing economy in GN as they are found there in OJo de Liebre. There has been excessive poaching there for many many years of this valuable resource and they are nearly fished out now.

The season was closed for the stocks to recover but opened again a couple weeks ago...when the whales leave...and they found that there just werent enough scallops of legal size to harvest...so they closed it again which is really sad for the fishermen...however we dont feel too sorry for them because most of the poachers are fishermen themselves...big problema these days.

So when the season is closed and the restaurant is offering fresh mano de leon...one should really decline to eat there....where do you begin to address out of season goodies???

here is a link to the article
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/se-detiene-c...

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in peru they eat their scallops with the huevera (orange egg sack) still attached. it is considered a delicacy that way. we have searched high and low to find them in baja and california, to no avail. when the fisherman clean the scallops they really CLEAN them. we've even tried to order them from the pagueros and they always come back cleaned.

i realize there is so much wrong with eating the a scallop while it is trying to procreate, but lacking seasons that are in place for that purpose (lobster season is closed in the warm months due to their trying to pro-create) what is a person to do? it seems that the Ojo closure is based on growth rates, not when the scallops are trying to mass produce the next generation.

might be something to bring up at the next meeting of the co-operativa?




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[*] posted on 5-22-2011 at 11:19 AM


On military checkpoints (I haven't sampled the tamales that way), we lost what had looked like a permanent check point at Cadeje, just north of the San Juanico on the Pacific side. On our last trip through, the camp was abandoned, so perhaps they've moved them up north. I'd guess they keep moving them around to keep the traffickers guessing. We also appear to have lost the "permanent" military check point just outside of La Paz.
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[*] posted on 5-23-2011 at 08:34 AM


woody...scallops do have a closed season during the reproductive time...they are very observant of the reproductive cycles of all the species here and close the fishing during them.



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[*] posted on 5-23-2011 at 12:15 PM


good.

i guess that's why we never have been able to get them with the huevera....




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