Through the introduction of larvae, researchers detected a greater presence of totoaba in the Gulf of Californiafrom La Paz, Baja California Sur to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, but their capture is still illegal, warned the doctor in Marine Ecology, Eugenio Alberto Aragón Noriega.
The senior researcher at the Center for Biological Research of the Northwest (Cibnor) He pointed out that the study carried out by Dr. Miguel Ángel Cisneros Mata revealed that the totoaba population in Baja California Sur, Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa has increased.
He pointed out that the company “Earth Ocean Farms”, the Center for the Reproduction of Marine Species of the State of Sonora (Cremes) and the Autonomous University of Baja California have been releasing juvenile totoabas in different parts of the Gulf of California for 20 years for repopulation.
Biotechnology saved the totoaba, the status of the population was changed by Cites (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), it is no longer threatened, it is now in a vulnerable category, but the law has not changed that it is a crime, it is in process”, he stressed.
The Senator Alejandra del Carmen León, from Baja Californiaindicated that he has sought to allow the fishermen of San Felipe to take advantage of the meat of this resource in aquaculture farms, as they already do in one of Loreto, but he has not achieved it.
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