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Shrmp fleet in Tampico, Tamaulipas (Photo: Stockfile)
CONAPESCA Press Release on the Suspension of Offshore Shrimp Certification to Mexico
MEXICO
Monday, May 03, 2021, 09:00 (GMT + 9)
• In order to recover this certification as soon as possible, the Government of Mexico, through the competent authorities, carries out preventive and corrective actions, such as training courses and follow-up to the procedures for qualifying infractions, along with a program more aggressive inspection and surveillance.
This Friday, April 30, 2021, the announcement was published in the United States Federal Register that the State Department of that country suspended the certification of shrimp from the high seas to Mexico because its sea turtle protection program is no longer comparable. with the United States, as of this day.
It is important to highlight that, in the previous months, and in accordance with the information provided by Mexican exporters, most of the shrimp with a trawl net was exported to the United States.
During the duration of the suspension of the certification, which coincides with the closure of this species, trawl shrimp may not be exported for any reason until the certification is recovered.
In order to recover this certification as soon as possible, the Government of Mexico, through the competent authorities: the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Commission (Conapesca), the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) and the Secretary of the Navy, is taking carry out preventive and corrective actions, such as training courses and follow-up to infraction qualification procedures.
Through permanent communication with the United States Government, Mexico is continuously working to resolve these observations with the sector, which goes hand in hand with a more aggressive inspection and surveillance program.
It is relevant to point out that the US authority has the disposition to return the aforementioned certification as soon as possible and for this it will be necessary to request a verification visit at the beginning of the season so that this recertification can be carried out.
Controls are carried out within the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Commission (Conapesca) to continue exporting shrimp that have not been caught with trawl nets and with Turtle Excluder Devices (DET) so as not to stop the export process, in addition, the fisheries offices were notified about the suspension so that no format with shrimp with a trawl net is validated.
As part of the process to follow, it will be essential to transmit to the United States Government, no later than the month of August, the action plan with all the documentary evidence of the actions carried out by the Government of Mexico.
When the start of the season is determined, the United States Government must be notified of the preliminary dates for the visit. For this, it is absolutely essential that Conapesca, Profepa and Semar carry out the corresponding preliminary verifications, seeking to ensure that everything is in adequate condition for verification.
The ports that will be reviewed as a priority are: Mazatlán, Puerto Peñasco, Tampico and Campeche, according to preliminary information from the United States Government.
The verification visits that were carried out by NOAA and the United States Department of State were:
• November 18-22, 2019, Mazatlán, Sinaloa and San Blas, Nayarit.
• February 25-27, 2020, was Puerto Chiapas and Salinas Cruz.
• October 27-29, 2020 in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora.
• January 24 to 31, 2021 in Tampico, Tamaulipas; Lerma, Campeche; and Puerto Juárez, Quintana Roo.
From these visits, observers from the United States determined certain observations related to deficiencies in the instrumentation of the TED NOM in about 106 observed networks.
Annual total shrimp exports to the United States reached 30 thousand tons in 2019, with a value of 300 million dollars. Of this volume, six thousand tons were exported from May to September
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