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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 07:06 AM
Seafood Prices ?


Hi everyone , yesterday is was told that the oceans are doing very well . So I was wondering how much seafood prices have been dropping in your area ?

:?: La Paz , Ensenada ,Cabo , loreto, GN , Seems to me prices have been on the rise. Is it only my bad choice of places to buy ?

Whats the deal ?
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 07:14 AM


We bought legitimate grande sized shrimp WITH THE HEAD ON for the first time at a big shrimp farming and net dragging town below us in Sonora. 80 pesos/kilo. I thought they were a much better deal than the headless for 120/kilo. Not that much weight in a head and we like to fry some up in cornstarch, a la Asia, and eat them whole. These were not the blue ones but the red ones.

Prices were up this year, slightly, over last year. I think last year (or was it the year before) that there was a temporary ban on shrimp importation into the US and prices REALLY dropped.




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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 07:17 AM


ligui, Must be inflation because I'm sure your source for " yesterday is was told that the oceans are doing very well " couldn't be misinformed:o



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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 08:37 AM


Hook google the recipe for "chupe de camaron" it is made with the heads as a base for the soup. OMG it is REALLY good.

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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 10:32 AM


Out here on the Pacific coast I was told by too many people that the purchase of abalone was forbidden from any source whatsoever, to believe they "were pulling my hair". The cooperativa won't sell it. I asked about "en veda", in season, and they said "No se vende nunca". This sounds really weird but someone mentioned six hundred pesos a kilo. I don't know. I stand confused.



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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 10:37 AM


you can buy it canned (processed) but don't be caught with it fresh.



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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 10:52 AM


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Out here on the Pacific coast I was told by too many people that the purchase of abalone was forbidden from any source whatsoever, to believe they "were pulling my hair". The cooperativa won't sell it. I asked about "en veda", in season, and they said "No se vende nunca". This sounds really weird but someone mentioned six hundred pesos a kilo. I don't know. I stand confused.


I am also skeptical. only fresh stuff I have seen are the trimmings (and they were not that fresh). I did see someone years ago trying to sell stuff as Abalone in Vizcaino, but whatever it was, it wasn't fresh abalone!
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 10:59 AM


alot of times they sell the first cut off the foot of the ab in the markets. leather is softer! the good stuff goes where the $ is, not to the local mercado....



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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 11:04 AM


Here are some recent fish prices in BCS today. Prices range from the beach guys since it's expensive early and less later as the day winds down and the ice melts and the fish is less fresh, also prices vary depending on your friendship with the vendor.

Perico filet = 120/k
Amarrila Atun filet = 50-60/k
Camaron medium = 80-120/k
whole Sierra = 40/k
Bass = 50/k
Lots of white fish filets in the 60/k which is most popular such as


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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 11:07 AM


that must be late in the day. i see no ice!;D



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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 11:13 AM


This guy catches octopus all day, he told me he smashes them with a rock and grabs them, but I don't know what the process for catching pulpo is, I have heard it's better frozen then unfrozen, though I don't know. But this guy is amazing, he will enter a beach where you are swimming and see very little and he catches pulpo for hours in his bare hands and his rock. I am looking for a picture of my favorite fish store now...
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 11:15 AM


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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 11:49 AM
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Originally posted by woody with a view
you can buy it canned (processed) but don't be caught with it fresh.

Originally posted by larryC
I was in Gurerro Negro yesterday at the wholesale mariscos place and priced fresh abulon, $125 usd a kilo. she says she sends a fair amount to Mexico city. A can of abulon was 400 pesos. looked to be about a 12oz can. we bought some scallops for $250p a kilo. Medium shrimp weree 200p a kilo.
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 02:43 PM


Medium shrimp for 200p a kilo? Is that 20$ US a lb.?:?:
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 02:44 PM


use 13 pesos per dollar for comparison. a kilo is 2.2 pounds.:light:



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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 02:46 PM


$15.26 at today's XE currency conversion rate.
So 7.63 a US dollar per 1.1 lbs.
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 02:46 PM


$15.26 at today's XE currency conversion rate.
So 7.63 a US dollar per 1.1 lbs.
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 02:52 PM


OK! About $1O.US/lb. That's some high priced shrimp were I come from.:o
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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 02:55 PM


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$15.26 at today's XE currency conversion rate.
So 7.63 a US dollar per 1.1 lbs.


can someone get me $500 worth of pesos? i'll pay for them with dollars next sunday on my way thru. really!

can't wait to spend some $....:light:




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[*] posted on 4-22-2012 at 03:17 PM


Mula, Thanks. I'll buy my shrimp down in the deep south of the USA and save several dollars.:biggrin:
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