Trader Joeś traditional taco shrimp. (Photo: Stock File)
(UNITED STATES, 10/13/2017)
Grocery store chain Trader Joe’s, located in Monrovia, California, has declared it will stop buying shrimp from Mexico amid the pressure exercised by the Boycott Mexican Shrimp campaign launched earlier this year by more than 45 organizations.
The store chain’s declaration comes as Mexican authorities prepare to capture some of the fewer than 30 remaining vaquita in the Upper Gulf of California before all are lost to entanglement in shrimp fishing gear.
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