The president of the Federation of Fishing Cooperative Societies of the Western Center of the State, Mariano Canul Uicab declared that in short, there is no progress towards better capture of octopus, the capture remains low and only 12,837 tons have been achieved.
He said that from August 1 to October 20, the volume of octopus capture is 12,837 tons, perhaps a little more than 13,000 tons has already been reached; However, the pulp is still low for the social and industrial sector in the State.
He said that with one month and two weeks left until the end of the capture of the mollusk, which is from August 1 to December 15, it would be difficult to reach up to 20 thousand tons of the octopod to decently close this important activity of which there were high hopes of achieving. capture more than 25 thousand tons.
He added that the riverside fishermen, discouraged by the low catch of the mollusk and the low prices per kilo that are between 80, 90 and 100 pesos, left the pulpeada to go after the grouper, scale species and dogfish to see if they have a better catch for that leave them good income.
Finally, Canul Uicab reiterated that more cold fronts are coming that will cause intense northerlies, and in this way the possibility of greater capture of the octopus is further reduced, since bad weather slows down activities for fishermen for days or weeks, and the only ones Those that go out to sea to capture species are the highest vessels.
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