sancho
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San Felipe Commercial Fishing Back Open- Beaches open
According to the San Felipe site today, commercial fishing
opened back up in SF, beaches so. of SF also open
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So the vaquita and totuava have been saved, and all is well? The shrimpers (the only commercial fishing that far up in the gulf) are back in business?
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Mexico nabs 3 shrimp boats in refuge of endangered porpoise
By Associated Press.JAN. 20, 2015
ADDS DATE AND CAUSE OF DEATH FILE In this Feb. 1992 file photo released by Omar Vidal, a female vaquita marina porpoise lies dead after getting
entangled in a gillnet on El Golfo de Santa Clara beach in the upper Gulf of California. Mexico is planning to use drones to patrol the upper Sea of
Cortez to combat illegal fishing and save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise. Assistant environmental prosecutor
Alejandro del Mazo said Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 his agency has conducted tests of unmanned aircraft flights in cooperation with the Mexican Navy. (AP
Photo/Omar Vidal, Proyecto Vaquita, File) The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) Mexican authorities have caught three boats shrimping in a refuge for the endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.
Mexico's environmental protection agency says the boats belonged to fishermen in the town of Golfo de Santa Clara, at the northern edge of the Sea of
Cortez.
It said Tuesday that the three people detained also face sanctions for violating a Jan. 15 fishing ban for the broader region due to red tide, an
algal bloom phenomenon that can be toxic to human health.
The vaquita marina is native to the Sea of Cortez and can reach about 5 feet (1.5 meters) in length. The porpoise is critically threatened by illegal
gillnet fishing, and experts say fewer than 100 remain.
Mexico recently began using unmanned drones to patrol the vaquita's habitat.
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sancho
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Not true at all, San Felipe has quite a large number of pangas,
I would guess close to 80+, that fish daily commercial just about yr. round, I imagine there is some part of the yr. that is better than another. What
I ''ve seen is with drift, gillnets. Don't know
what the pangs fishing effect has on the Totuava stock or
the Vaquita. Have heard a few yrs. back, some were suggesting
a limited take on Totuava due to increasing numbers.The info is off theSan Felipe site, Kats Korner
today or yesterday, Didn't' specify shrimpers
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early December these are 90 small gillnet boats and yes they are fishing for totoaba inside the protected zone.
[Edited on 1-22-2015 by willardguy]
[Edited on 1-22-2015 by willardguy]
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Quote: Originally posted by willardguy  | early December these are 90 small gillnet boats and yes they are fishing for totoaba inside the protected zone.
[Edited on 1-22-2015 by willardguy]
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Bring on the drones. I thought the Mex gov was paying them not to fish 
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no, the US government has PROPOSED paying them to stay clear of the protected zone.
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Guess I missed that in the global crisis part of the state of the union
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what! there was no mention of VAQUITA????everyone else got in!
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Bad dog bad 
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I would mention it, guess that's why i'm not the Delagado
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SF site?
What is the address of the site? cannot find
| Quote: Originally posted by sancho | According to the San Felipe site today, commercial fishing
opened back up in SF, beaches so. of SF also open
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Ron San Felipe Oct, Nov. Feb. Mar. April. remainder in Juneau Ak
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sancho
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Off the sanfelipe.com.mx, mentioned by Kat, under her
daily Kats Korner
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http://katskorner.com.mx/san_felipe/
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