Fourth forum to analyse the commercialization of the Dorado
The fourth Dorado forum will be held in Cabo San Lucas on June 24th at the Playa Granda main Salon at 9:00 a.m. I received the official invitation on
Wednesday afternoon of last week.
I heard strong rumors since friday the 3rd, that this fourth meeting was to take place in Mazatlan with a followup in Cabo San Lucas at the end of
this month. In Lazaro Card##as in May our group was told that the issue wouldn't be persued for another 4 to 6 months, but obviously this is not the
case. I find it interesting that no official invitation was made available, and only through my relentless investigations did I receive one and I was
one of 5 non politician type persons notified.
So exhausted as I am with this, we're going to battle again.
I ruffled many feathers all last week and the city is getting together a delegation to go to Cabo San Lucas on the 24th. Interestingly enough we will
be so busy working that we cannot attend. It will be high season Dorado time in Loreto.
I will write a ponencia on behalf of my cooperativa and I have arranged for a very special person to present it for us; Linda Ramirez Wright,
daughter of the late Alfredo Ramirez. She is a fantastic speaker and I know she will do an outstanding job. I believe it is symbolic too as this is
the kind of thing her dad used to do all the time, defend our natural resources. As the 24th approaches, please keep us in your thoughts. thanks
Before we all lose everything in a fight over Only This vs Only That has anybody posed questions about natives and dorados like this: If Mexico wants
indigenous people to thrive by catching and selling dorado can't they divise a method and license situation that would make limits work for the
fishery?
They make a law but do not address how it will be administered. So multinational concerns drag pangas behind capture ships and kill the whole fishery.
Now we get them to change the law so that every fishermen must wear a tuxedo while fishing. The first international costume shop chain merges with the
big capture boat chain and the law has been compromised. And so it goes.
How about allowing the fishermen in pangas a fair share of the fishery ONLY IF THEY FISH A CERTAIN WAY, WITH A CERTAIN KIND OF LICENSE LIKE THEY DO
ALL OVER THE GLOBE WHERE THERE ARE TOO MANY FISHERMEN AND NOT ENOUGH FISH?
If you go into meeting anywhere with anyone with an attidude that says "All or Nothing" sometimes you will lose before you get to the meeting.
Nothing good can ever come from the commercialization of fishing for dorado IMO but there are 14,000 panga fishermen in the northern gulf and Mexico
thinks they will starve if they don't change the law, allow others to take the money, watch the natives ALMOST STARVE anyway.
It is sometimes an interesting comparison to watch the "outsiders" and "commercial guys" come into an area. We have squid in the Santa Rosalia area
for the first time in over two years. The local guys go out at night, catch a load, bring them in cleaned and ready and get ready to go out the next
day. The old converted Shrimp boats that come from La Paz and Guaymas got wind that there were squid in the area, so they come in, fish all night and
into the early morning hours in an effort to load up the entire boat with squid. They camp on the north end of San Marcos Island, make a big mess in
the water with squid guts ( which do get eaten) , but the big mess is all the trash and junk that they produce which gets thrown overboard and floats
around with the sargasso lines for weeks before it sinks. They are pretty aggresive with their larger boats and have a tendency to harass the local
guys who make a mistake of getting into their way. The boats smell so bad that it might be a refreshment to get sent to jail instead of having to
spend a couple of weeks aboard. Last count was 13 boats so you can imagine the impact that is having on the squid as well as the area environment.
So, when you want these kind of people to have open limits on the dorado and let them put out longlines or whatever they want to use to catch the
fish, you truly have people who really could care less about what goes on with the local fishing because they not only do not live here but have no
investment in anything that happens here. The locals, on the other hand, have kind of a built in sensor about what is biting, what is needing a
little break in the pressure, and what is plentiful enough to catch their attention. Now that the squid have shown up, the number of boats in the
water has tripled in the last few days and they are working the squid like crazy which gives the dorado and yellowtail a small break. We only had
three boats on the bajos today.
Originally posted by flyfishinPam
I just wrote a KICK A$S ponencia...
Show them this video:
For the Spanish-challenged, the fishermen in the San Felipe and Mexicali area are complaining that they are getting charged "tolls" and extortion
money for the licenses to fish in the Sea of Cortez. They are being charged by people working for PROFEPA, which is the Mexican environmental
protection agency. There is a reserve area in the northern SOC to protect the vaquitas, the endangered porpoises, and PROFEPA is taking bribes for
licenses to fish it the reserve area.
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The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
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