Octopus collapse
MEXICO
Friday, December 18, 2009
The Campeche delegate of Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishery and Foods, Benjamin Azar Garcia, warns that the capture of octopus is nearing the brink of collapse if measures are not implemented to prevent the depredation of the resource.
For the official, the cephalopod could disappear in five years, unless inspection and monitoring actions intensify to eradicate illegal fishing.
Some 3,840 tonnes of octopus had been landed through 15 December, when the fishing season finalised, 29.4 per cent less than in 2008, when 5,438 tonnes were fished, according to SAGARPA statistics.
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