Riviera Maya, Q.R. — During the month of November, national fisheries announces the closure of some catches and the starting of others. The National Commission for Aquaculture and Fisheries (Conapesca) says the season has closed for mullet and tuna in both the Pacific, Gulfs and Caribbean Sea.
However, as of November 1, lobster, oyster, snails, mullet and shrimp catches began. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, through the Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, a través de la Comisión Nacional de Acuacultura y Pesca (Conapesca) says the changes apply to waters in the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of California, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, in addition to inland waters.
According to Conapesca, the capture of mullet in the coastal waters of the states of Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas is suspended from November 1 to December 31. The tuna resource has an alternative temporary ban period that begins on November 9, 2024, and ends on January 19, 2025.
The temporary ban on pink, lancet, tomburro, chirita and chactel snails ended on November 1 in waters under federal jurisdiction on the coast of the state of Quintana Roo.
In regards the use of blue, green and red lobsters, they may be caught starting November 16 in federal waters of the Pacific Ocean, from Boca de la Soledad to Cabo San Lucas, including the marine strip between zero and one hundred fathoms deep, within the Gulf of California.
Starting at midnight on November 1, shrimp and jackal may be harvested in continental waters under federal jurisdiction on the Pacific Ocean slope. The second harvesting period for white mullet begins on November 11 and ends on the 30th of the same month in Laguna Madre in Tamaulipas.
In Tabasco, starting on November 1, the second period of commercial exploitation of oysters in waters under federal jurisdiction of the estuarine lagoon systems of this state begins, while pleasure oysters may be exploited starting November 16, in marine and estuarine waters under federal jurisdiction of the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean, except south of Teacapán, Sinaloa.
