SHEIN design, left, and that of YucaChulas of Yucatán.
YucaChulas, a Mexican textile company in Mérida, Yucatán, has accused the clothing manufacturer SHEIN Mexico of copying its clothing designs.
According to YucaChulas, a SHEIN product is a design copied from a piece made by them in 2017 for México en Colores, a blog that features Mexican brands with a focus on handmade textiles and embroidery. YucaChulas insists that the only thing that SHEIN changed in their version of the blouse was the colors around the edges of the neck and arm holes, and that the rest of the design and coloring of the shirts is identical to their original.
SHEIN, a Chinese company with affiliates in 220 countries around the world, is known for its fast fashion ethos and cheap final products.
Mexico’s Culture Ministry joined the fray on Twitter, saying it was “strongly against the inappropriate cultural appropriation … by making blouses of short huipiles that are also made in various Maya communities in Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo.
The ministry said it would demand an explanation for commercialization of a design attributed to the communities of Yucatán. The fight is one of many that have surfaced in recent years that accuse large, international brands of cultural appropriation — or the use of designs or products whose ownership has been documented as belonging to indigenous communities in Mexico.
International brands like Louis Vuitton, Carolina Herrera, the French designer Isabel Marant, and most recently the clothing and home interiors store Zara have all been accused of cultural appropriation in fashion, in each case with the Mexican government stepping in to defend the intellectual property rights of artisans.
There have also been several campaigns launched to try to help shoppers determine what are real Mexican artisanal handcrafts and clothing and what are “fake” or “pirated,” i.e. mass produced or from other countries altogether.
Frida poses in her skeleton costume. Facebook / Rescatistas Independientes Unidos Mérida
A beloved dog who for years was a fixture outside a shop in the historic center of Mérida died on Tuesday, apparently due to poisoning.
Frida the xoloitzcuintle (Mexican hairless dog) became famous due to her constant presence outside the Alfaro antiques store on Calle 60 in the Yucatán capital’s downtown. Locals and tourists alike would stop to say hello, give her a pat and perhaps take a photo of or with the friendly pooch.
Sadly, Frida’s days of brightening the lives of passersby are now over. Leticia Alfaro, the owner of both Antigüedades Alfaro and Frida, told the Sipse news organization that her cherished companion passed away on Tuesday morning.
She was taken to a veterinary hospital on Monday after Alfaro’s son noticed that she was unwell. Vets initially said that her heart was beating normally and that she would remain under observation for 24 hours. However, Frida’s condition deteriorated and the vets were unable to save her. Studies they performed indicated that she had been poisoned.
Frida’s owners made an altar to honor her memory.
Alfaro said that additional tests are being done to determine what substance killed her pet. She said she was unsure how Frida could have been poisoned because there is nothing in her shop that could have killed her. She said her cat would have become ill as well if there was poison in her store.
In her conversation with Sipse, Alfaro also eulogized her deceased nine-year-old xolo. “People looked at her, … a xolo in the street, they saw that she followed me, they saw her as a very unique xolo,” she said with tears in her eyes.
“Being in such an important street in Mérida, being free [to roam around] made her special. And a lot of people don’t know xolos, a lot of people said that it was the first time that they had touched an animal like that,” Alfaro said.
She also said that Frida was very affectionate and friendly, noting that she was a friend of the shop cat and would willingly share her food with city pigeons. “Frida was one of a kind, that’s why people loved her so much. I thank them for their affection.”
In memory of her departed dog, Alfaro set up an altar featuring a photo and drawing of her. An urn filled with her ashes was also set to be included in the memorial to Frida, now one of Mérida’s most missed canines.
Yucatán's famous flamingos prefer to make their nests away from the paparazzi. Facebook / Rio Lagartos Adventures Ecotours
Irresponsible tourism is a major factor in the decline of flamingos in nesting grounds in northeastern Yucatán, according to a local biologist.
The number of flamingos currently nesting on Yucatán’s western coast in the Ría Celestún Biosphere Reserve and on the state’s central northern coast in places such as San Crisanto is higher than in previous years, but the same can’t be said for the Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve and nearby areas. In fact, numbers are way down compared to last year.
There are currently about 1,000 to 2,000 flamingos at Ría Lagartos, according to experts, whereas there were some 30,000 at the same time last year, when the pandemic was still keeping tourist numbers down. Flamingo numbers are also severely diminished in places such as San Felipe, El Cuyo and Las Coloradas.
José Cruz Hoil Rajón, a biologist who has collaborated with environmental authorities at all three levels of government, told the newspaper Por Esto! that a variety of factors have caused flamingo numbers to fall in northeastern Yucatán.
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He attributed significant blame to tour guides for taking tourists too close to the long-legged pink birds and disturbing their ecosystem. As a result, the flamingos feel threatened and choose to leave for quieter places where they can better protect their nests, Hoil said.
The biologist also said that the number of wild dogs and cats in the Ría Lagartos reserve has increased and that they attack and frighten off the American flamingos. Other factors that have contributed to the lower numbers include the illegal capture of the birds for trafficking purposes, contamination, climate change and tidal conditions, Hoil said.
He described the situation as concerning and urged tour guides and tourists to not go within 500 meters of the nesting flamingos. Instead of encroaching on their habitat, tourists should observe the birds from a distance with binoculars, Hoil said.
The biologist also urged citizens to report any suspicious people who may be invading flamingo habitats to capture the birds.
He said the drastic decline in the numbers is a threat to tourism in northeastern Yucatán, where the wading birds are a major attraction. Flamingos’ secretions and their gait help to improve water quality in salt marshes and the birds are an important part of the food chain, Hoil added.
Their absence on the coast of northeastern Yucatán would cause a biological imbalance and a reduction in much-needed tourism revenue, he said.
Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez presented security numbers for January–June 2022 at President López Obrador's daily press conference on Wednesday.
Homicides declined 9.1% in the first six months of the year, the federal security minister reported Wednesday, but this six-year period of government nevertheless remains on track to be the most violent in recent decades.
There were 15,400 murders between January and June, 1,548 fewer than in the same period of 2021, according to data presented by Rosa Icela Rodríguez at President López Obrador’s regular news conference.
Homicides in June totaled 2,662, a reduction of one compared to the same month in 2021 but 164 fewer than in May. Rodríguez said the June homicide figures were the lowest for that month in five years.
Six highly violent states continue to account for almost half of all homicides. Of the 15,400 recorded in the first six months of the year, 7,505, or almost 49%, occurred in Guanajuato, Michoacán, Baja California, México state, Jalisco and Chihuahua.
While this government graph shows fewer murders during AMLO’s term than that of the two previous presidents, he’s on track to surpass their numbers over the next two years.
Guanajuato, where criminal organizations such as the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel operate, remains Mexico’s most violent state with 1,566 homicides in the first half of 2022. Just over one in 10 homicides this year occurred in the Bajío region state.
Rodríguez also presented data that showed that López Obrador’s six-year term is on track to be the most violent presidential period in recent years. There have been almost 120,000 homicides since AMLO took office about three and a half years ago, the security minister’s graph showed, compared to just over 121,600 during the entire six years of Felipe Calderón’s 2006–12 presidency.
Enrique Peña Nieto’s 2012–18 presidency was the most violent six-year term of government in recent decades with over 157,000 homicides, but that figure will be exceeded during the course of this federal government unless murders decline significantly during the next two years.
At the beginning of her report, Rodríguez asserted that Mexico’s overall crime rate is on the wane and highlighted that the federal government’s security strategy involves coordination with state and municipal governments using “intelligence and concrete actions to deliver precision shots to criminal structures.”
The state of Guanajuato, in which several organized crime groups operate, remains the state with the most homicides in 2022. @David_Saucedo_/Twitter
“And we have results: a downward trend in the incidence of crime,” Rodríguez said.
The security minister pointed out that there were 25.1% fewer federal jurisdiction crimes in June than in the first month of the current government. She presented data that showed that drug trafficking offenses and tax and financial crimes all declined in the first six months of this year compared to the same period of 2021, but assaults, firearms offenses and property crimes all increased.
Rodríguez also said that common jurisdiction crimes have declined, highlighting that total robberies – including home burglaries and vehicle theft – declined 29.4% last month compared to the all-time high recorded in October 2017. However, a graph she presented showed that robberies have recently trended upwards.
There were 89 femicides in June, the highest monthly figure this year, but Rodríguez emphasized that the figure represented a 20.5% decline compared to the “historic maximum” of August 2021. In the first six months of the year, there was a total of 493 femicides, putting Mexico on track to record a slight reduction in that crime compared to 2021, when 1,016 women and girls were killed on account of their gender.
Abductions have generally declined during López Obrador’s presidency, according to federal numbers.
“We’re continuing to work in a preventative manner and we’re also working to sanction femicides,” Rodríguez said.
She highlighted that kidnappings declined 73% last month to 50 victims compared to January 2019 when there were 185. Her graph showed that abductions have generally declined during López Obrador’s presidency.
“The work that has been done with the National Anti-Kidnapping Coordination and with the anti-kidnapping units in all the states is important,” Rodríguez said.
“Here it’s seen very clearly how this crime has declined,” she said, adding that 1,401 people have been arrested for kidnapping during the current government, 503 kidnapping rings have been broken up and 2,013 victims have been rescued.
The Canadian government said it would support the US in its challenge. deposit photos
Canada has joined the United States in seeking dispute settlement consultations with Mexico over its energy sector policies that favor state-owned firms over private and foreign companies.
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Wednesday that the U.S. had requested consultations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the free trade pact that took effect in 2020.
“We have repeatedly expressed serious concerns about a series of changes in Mexico’s energy policies and their consistency with Mexico’s commitments under the USMCA,” she said.
Later on Wednesday, Canada’s International Trade Ministry told Reuters that it too was launching energy consultations with Mexico and “supporting the U.S. in their challenge.”
“Canada has consistently raised its concerns regarding Mexico’s change in energy policy. We agree with the United States that these policies are inconsistent with Mexico’s USMCA obligations,” Alice Hansen, a spokeswoman for International Trade Minister Mary Ng, said in a statement.
Both the United States and Canada are particularly concerned about the Electricity Industry Law (LIE), which gives power generated by the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) priority on the national grid over that produced by private and renewable energy companies.
Mexico’s Economy Ministry (SE) on Wednesday acknowledged that it had received consultation requests from both the U.S. and Canada. In a statement, the SE said that Canada’s request related to the LIE. “The consultations [requested] constitute the non-litigious stage of the general dispute resolution … [in] USMCA,” it said.
The SE noted that there is a 75-day window to reach resolution during that stage and that if a “mutually satisfactory agreement” isn’t reached, Canada could seek the establishment of a dispute panel. “The consultations request presented by the government of Canada contains certain common elements with the request presented by the United States,” the ministry said, adding that Mexico will “seek to maintain a coordinated process with both USMCA trade partners.”
The United States and Canada are particularly concerned about a law that gives power generated by the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission priority on the national grid.
“… The government of Mexico expresses its willingness to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement during the consultation stage,” the SE said. If an agreement isn’t reached with Canada and the United States, those countries could impose tariffs on Mexican imports.
President López Obrador, who on Wednesday mocked the United States’ challenge by playing a popular song called Oh, How Scary, said Thursday that the challenges launched by Mexico’s North American trade partners could be politically motivated. “It’s a kind of political sanction, we’ll defend ourselves,” he told reporters at his regular news conference.
“I have evidence that this has to do with vested interests because they dedicated themselves to looting Mexico and as they were stopped they started to do work in the United States and they achieved this. But if there’s no reason [for the challenge], we’re not going to remain with our arms crossed,” López Obrador said. “I sense that it’s a political issue.”
The president, a staunch energy nationalist, stressed that Mexico has the right to define its own energy policies. “We can have trade relations but we define [domestic] policies in Mexico,” López Obrador said. “We’re not going to put Mexico’s control over [its own] oil up for negotiation,” he added. AMLO stressed that Mexico wouldn’t allow the United States and Canada to impose the policies they want to benefit companies from those countries.
“We establish the agenda now, we govern according to the development plan we sent to Congress and which was approved by the legislative power,” he said, asserting that the government doesn’t act on the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank or “any foreign government.” He also told reporters that he had asked former trade negotiator Jesús Seade – currently Mexico’s ambassador to China – to assist Mexico’s defense of its energy policies, which are largely designed to bolster the CFE and state oil company Pemex.
In addition, López Obrador took the opportunity to rail against the previous government, which opened up Mexico’s energy sector to private and foreign companies. The government led by Enrique Peña Nieto put Mexico’s oil on the negotiating table, completely destroyed the CFE and handed over the electricity market to private companies, he said.
A Nicaraguan migrant stashes his new passport and identification papers alongside two children as they wait for the boat to take them across the border.
As Tapachula, Chiapas, has become notorious as a place where migrants coming from Central America can be trapped in Mexico for months or even years in detention — or simply living on the streets waiting for paperwork with no way to legally earn income — a small Tabasco town on Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala has become an increasingly popular route for migrant crossings and human trafficking.
El Ceibo, located in the Tenosique municipality, lies within Mesoamerica’s largest swampland, the Pantanos de Centla Biosphere Reserve, which is fed by overflow from the Grijalva and Usumacinta rivers. The endless canals created by the wetlands in El Ceibo provide waterways that lead to the town of La Palma, where migrants can surreptitiously take a direct road to Mexico City and further north.
One of these canals in El Ceibo, just footsteps from the border, has become the latest highway for coyotes smuggling people into Mexico. For those who can afford it, the average asking price of US $4,500 guarantees three shots at entry into Mexico — assuming that they survive the jungle and then the desert they’ll encounter.
The thick jungle and winding rivers of the Centla Reserve provide perfect cover for migrants but also for narcos smuggling drugs between Mexico and Guatemala, who often view the refugees they encounter as easy targets of opportunity for extortion.
Small, unsafe boats cross hopefuls from Guatemala into Tabasco.
Despite large numbers of Mexican troops shifting their position to the southern border in the last year, Tenosique, Tabasco, has witnessed record-breaking numbers of irregular migration as Mexican migrant policy has pushed undocumented hopefuls into Tapachula, where today’s migrants know they face an uncertain future they’re powerless to change.
According to Mexico’s Migration Policy Unit (UPMRIP), over 40,000 applications for asylum were registered in Tabasco in 2021, but numbers continue to rise and it is estimated many more remain undocumented. Human rights organizations such as Doctors Without Borders (MSF) working in the area also claim to have collected testimonies of migrants who have suffered abductions, torture and sexual assault.
Hopeful migrants in El Ceibo make the journey to Mexico by crossing the San Pedro river, which runs westward through Guatemala until it enters Mexico via Tabasco. It runs through both countries in a maze of canals.
While some migrants started their journey in Guatemala, many others are coming from other Central American countries, like one young man from Nicaragua in his late twenties who asked not to be named, who managed to evade detection from multiple police and military checks during a four-hour bus journey.
As he boarded the bus, he spoke briefly with the driver and his assistant before taking a seat at the back, remaining silent the entire time. Only two other passengers were on the bus with him.
At each of the four military checkpoints the bus encountered as it approached the Mexican border, Guatemalan soldiers charged with the inspection of vehicles spoke with the bus driver. Passengers were never required to submit documentation — the bus was always waved on.
The young man surely saw the large sign as they got closer to the border, indicating where irregular migrants should go to process asylum applications with Mexico before arriving at the final checkpoint. However, less than a kilometer from the border, the bus swerved from the road and headed instead toward the San Pedro river, this Nicaraguan’s final stop in Guatemala and possibly his first step into Mexico.
As the bus stopped and the driver and his assistant exited, they signaled for the young man to follow them to a small hut, where two children were also waiting. The driver then handed the young man a passport and a set of papers before asking him to stand straight as he took a picture of him with his cell phone.
El Ceibo, which has a legal border crossing, is one of the smallest in southern Mexico.
The bus then left him and proceeded toward the frontier with Mexico with one passenger less.
He joined one of many hopefuls taking small, leaky boats that rest on low marshland converted into makeshift docks waiting to carry nervous men, women and children hoping for a better life in Mexico or the United States.
It was a potentially dangerous journey: the river is home to Morelet’s crocodiles and boas, while the jungle that provides protection from capture also contains jaguars and other predators. As for human dangers, large numbers of troops hunt migrants on both sides of the border, scanning the land, air and waterways.
Migrants who take this uncharted but increasingly popular route face dangers from cartels, unscrupulous coyotes and other bad actors who simply want to prey on people they know will pass through and feel unable to seek help from authorities.
MSF has collected several testimonies from migrants that reveal sometimes horrific instances of extortion and abuse they suffered upon entering Mexico that required medical and psychological care. “What we are seeing is an exponential growth in the number of kidnappings in this area and an increase in the cruelty and the torture methods used by criminal groups,” said Gemma Pomares, the organization’s head of medical activities in Tenosique.
MSF has documented stories from migrants who were taken to abandoned houses and forced to remove their clothes before being tied up for hours. Left out in the open in high temperatures and inclement weather, their freedom was granted in exchange for providing the phone numbers of their relatives.
“While violence has always been a reality of the migration route north from Guatemala through Mexico, extortion and this level of extreme violence have been more pervasive in dangerous cities closer to the U.S. border and has not been so prevalent, until now, in southern areas,” said Pomares.
MSF says that in order to contain migratory flows to the United States, Mexico’s immigration policies have criminalized, persecuted and detained migrants, forcing them to go underground and take increasingly dangerous routes.
“It was a just matter of time before the high levels of violence against migrants and refugees that our teams have seen on the northern border moved to the south of the country,” said Sergio Martín, MSF’s general coordinator in Mexico.
“What we are seeing are the humanitarian consequences of the tightening of migration policies, designed to inflict greater suffering on the thousands of people desperately escaping for their lives. The lack of protection and the cruelty with which they are being treated is unacceptable.”
The clay pot found in Playa del Carmen. Cenotes Urbanos de Playa del Carmen
Archaeologists have discovered an approximately 2,000-year-old Mayan pot in a cave in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo.
The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced the discovery in a statement Tuesday, saying that the 13-centimeter-high “chocolatier style” pot had been dated to the late pre-classic period of 300 B.C. to 250 A.D.
INAH archaeologists José Antonio Reyes Solís and Enrique Terrones González visited a cave on a Playa del Carmen property owned by a religious association after receiving a report on it from biologist and speleologist Roberto Rojo.
Reyes said they found the pot near the eastern wall of the Cueva de la Cruz (Cave of the Cross), where the ceramic relic was partially submerged in sediment. Despite its age, the pot is completely intact, he said.
The ancient vessel was photographed in situ before it was removed using a “meticulous process,” INAH said, noting that it was passed along a human chain to ensure it wasn’t damaged. The relic was subsequently transferred to the Mayan Museum of Cancún, where it was closely inspected and measured. The body of the pot, which has no handles, has a diameter of 16 centimeters while its mouth, or opening, is slightly wider at 17 cm.
Reyes noted that the exterior of the pot is reddish in color while the inside is black. “It’s partially covered by calcium carbonate, which is characteristic of materials recovered in caves,” he said. Reyes added that there is an image of a plant similar to a squash on the pot.
Margarito Molina Rendón, director of INAH’s Quintana Roo office, said the recovery of any ancient relic, “from a pottery fragment to a complete pot, is of great importance for INAH.”
The pot found in the cave will be studied to learn more about the Mayan people who were alive at the time when it was made.
Archaeologists plan to return to the Cueva de la Cruz during the dry season to search for other artifacts, as the cave tends to fill up with water during the rainy season.
The temperature reached 48 C last week, highest in the country. deposit photos
Heat-related deaths have taken the lives of six people in Mexicali, Baja California, in the last 25 days, according to state officials.
Temperatures in the border city have been hovering at or above 38 C for the last several weeks, with the city experiencing 48 C temperatures on July 12, the highest temperature in the country. Officials say that temperatures in Mexicali will average 46 C this week and but with humidity levels that will make it feel even hotter.
Older people and children are especially susceptible to the heat, but the six deaths reported have not all been older people. In June a 19-year-old, a 23-year-old, and a 35-year-old died along with three other men aged 53, 55, and 60. All of the victims have been men, some were migrants at the border, some seem to have been locals with prolonged exposure to the extreme heat, and possibly homeless. The state also reported that there have been 57 cases so far this summer of heatstroke, dehydration, and extreme sunburn.
Normally seasonal rains might have a chance of reducing the intense heat, but there has been little rain in the region so far. Sonora, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Tamaulipas received less than 1 centimeter of rain in a recent 24-hour period and the National Meteorological Service says that periodic climate patterns of “La Niña,” which the area is experiencing this year, will most likely keep temperatures high until the end of the year. Northern Mexico is also facing severe drought, which the hot weather and dry temperatures are only aggravating.
Local officials are warning residents to stay inside if possible, stay hydrated, and keep their skin protected while outside. The signs of a heatstroke include a racing heart rate, headaches, high body temperature, dizziness, weakness, nausea, red skin, dryness, confusion, and a lack of sweat.
A chiles en nogada hamburger is beyond the pale for national restaurant association.
All one has to do is watch a few episodes of Netflix’s “La Divina Gula“ (Heavenly Bites, in English), to understand that Mexicans love to reinvent and reorder their cuisine, even the most sacred of national dishes. Concha sweetbread fused with corn muffins, chilaquiles served in a bollilo (Mexican sandwich bread), and Doritos loaded down with every kind of condiment you can imagine represent the innovation of food on the streets of Mexico that the country is famous for.
But the national restaurant association, Canirac, has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to Mexico’s national dish, chiles en nogada. A hamburger version has not been warmly welcomed.
Chiles en nogada is a mild poblano pepper stuffed with a blend of ground meat, fruit and spices and smothered in a walnut sauce with a sprinkling of pomegranate seeds on top. Because the ingredients are available during the late summer/early fall and because of its red-white-and-green color scheme, chiles en nogada is often considered Mexico’s most patriotic dish and is served during the Independence Day season in and around September 16.
Representatives of Canirac in Puebla are now lamenting newly invented dishes including a hamburger and a cemita, a kind of sandwich special to Puebla, saying that such quirky interpretations are damaging the reputation of the original.
“[The restaurants] can do what they want, we can’t prohibit anyone from doing anything, but we are calling on them to be clear about the product they are selling called chiles en nogada … This dish is unique, so we must respect its originality, everything else is just inventions. Canirac doesn’t support these innovations because they only damage the reputation of Poblano cuisine,” said Carlos Azomazo, Puebla’s Canirac chief.
Puebla is particularly attached to chiles en nogada as the dish is said to have been created there by Spanish nuns in one of the city’s many convents.
Blue crabs leave their mangrove habitat at this time of year.
Some blue crabs in Veracruz are finding it hard to get from mangrove swamps to the sea due to the presence of recently-built houses on the coast, but residents and environmentalists are coming to their rescue.
It’s currently spawning season for female blue crabs, which leave mangrove forests when there is a full or new moon to deposit their eggs in the Gulf of Mexico. However, houses in new residential estates in the Riviera Veracruzana are blocking the path to the sea for some crabs.
One video filmed in an estate south of Veracruz city shows a huge number of blue crabs attempting to scale the wall of a home.
“The videos and photos are from the Punta Tiburón estate,” said Sergio Armando González, president of the environmental organization Earth Mission.
Cangrejo azul se topa con viviendas de camino al mar, en Alvarado
Crabs attempt to scale a wall in Veracruz as they make their way to the sea.
He said in an interview that his organization has been helping crabs get to the sea in that part of the Veracruz coast for the past five years. Last month, environmentalists and Punta Tiburón residents rescued 230 spawning crabs, González said, adding that their mass migration typically occurs after rainfall.
Some crabs never reach their intended destination as they are run over while crossing roads in the Riviera Veracruzana, which runs along the Gulf coast in the municipalities of Boca del Río and Alvarado. However, such incidents have become rarer because the Veracruz blue crab population has declined in recent years.
González said that environmentalists and housing estate residents will continue to rescue and relocate blue crabs until September, when the spawning season ends. Males and females that are not carrying eggs are returned to mangrove areas. Approximately 4,000 crabs were returned to mangrove swamps from the Punta Tiburón estate on Monday, González said.
He noted that it’s illegal to catch and consume blue crabs between August 15 and September 30, but advised against eating them at all times given that their numbers have decreased by 90% in Veracruz since 2015, according to data from the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Commission (Conapesca).
Anyone catching blue crabs for commercial purposes is required to have a Conapesca license, González said. Rescue efforts have led to a recovery of blue crab numbers in the Punta Tiburón area, but “unfortunately this isn’t seen along the entire Riviera” coast, he said.
