In a meeting with Enrique Martinez y Martinez, Secretary of Agriculture, aquaculture producers related the problems the industry was having. They said that due to white spot syndrome and hurricanes last year over 40,000 tons of shrimp were lost, having a value of three billion pesos ($22 million).
The producers pointed out that the loss of 70-75 percent of the shrimp production in Nayarit, Sinaloa, and Sonora resulted in a bleak future for the industry.
Enrique Martinez said that the government would help the aquaculture producers by granting them 600 million pesos for the acquisition and handling of larvae needed for stocking their ponds. Initially the government will give the producers in Sinaloa 90 million pesos ($6.85 million), the famers in Sonora 45.3 million pesos ($3.45 million), and 8.2 million pesos ($625 thousand) to the Nayarit producers.
He encouraged the producer to promote the consumption of shrimp in the country, noting that global per capita consumption of shrimp is 19 kilos (42 lbs.), while it is only 9 kilos (20 lbs.) in México.
(from Azteca Notiicas)
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