On Mexico’s Caribbean Coast, There’s Lobster for the Tourists and Microplastics for Everyone Else

Fishermen Puerto Morelos, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, risk their lives every time they live up to the fish or lobster. Their grace depends on the chances, because the weather often makes it impossible to go out, and the hooks they pour in other days. These workers are full of fish, and their families, are full of fish, filled with the benefits of developing the best possible lobsters for the rich strikers who come to the region.

Nacional Autónoma University at the Institute of Maritime Sciences and Limnology Omar Osleg Rivera-Garibay In a recent study. Colleagues and colleagues, Pencadores de Puerto Morelos sell a fishing cooperative product and high value seafood, to ensure the appetite of tourists, only with the fish caught near urban beaches. There is a small commercial value and polluted with small plastic fragments.

As part of their research, 424 fish of 29 different types of different types of different types using the same methods as Rivera-Garibay and team cooperative partners. All were split and digested systems were removed and examined. Pollutants found in 57 percent of the fish, a thousand micropylastic particles with a micropastic particle were restored. The study noted that “fish caught in shallow waters near the coast were more mathlasty in the guts in the deeper waters.”

In the closed season, members of the cooperative use only large amounts of methods such as “rosary line”.

Photo: Ricardo Hernández

Handline fishing is a traditional method of being used in shallow waters near Puerto Morelos. It is simply a line and a fork and can be used to catch fish as a Croaker, which can eat, but the small trade value. The other two methods are used to catch more valuable species. One row rosario (Rosary Line) consists of many lines with a number of branched hooks and is used in deeper waters, about 20 nautical miles from the shore. Snapper is used to catch Grouper and Pigfish. Lobster is held by free divers using Spearguns.

The least valuable fish, which contains more mathlasts, is taken home by fishermen to feed their families; High-valuable fish are sold here for tourists in Quintana Roo province, which spent more than $ 20 billion. Quintana Roo is the state of Mexico with the highest revenues of tourism, but this does not slip down the pyramid pyramid. From 2020, 42.6% of the population in Puerto Morel, lived in poverty or extreme poverty in terms of the Mexican Economic Secretariat.

Rivera-Garibay emphasizes the dangers of magnoplasts in the fish. “These species are consumed by people. There are malicious chemicals such as potential dangerous chemicals, such as plastic monomers and attachments, such as poisonous pollutants, harmful germs and algae,” Rivera-Garibay says. “However, there is no strong evidence that security in the sea is violated by the microplasts.