PROGRESO.— Behind the poor lobster season lies a mafia. These are pirates dedicated to plundering lobster and conch in the Alacranes Reef National Park area, the base of operations for authorized fishing cooperatives. There, some 60 poachers, aboard about 20 unregistered speedboats, are illegally extracting large quantities of the crustacean, mollusk, grouper, black grouper, and other finfish. This was publicly denounced by Mariano Canul Uicab, …
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PROGRESO.— Behind the poor lobster season lies a mafia. These are pirates dedicated to plundering lobster and conch in the Alacranes Reef National Park area, the base of operations for authorized fishing cooperatives. There, some 60 poachers, aboard about 20 unregistered speedboats, are illegally extracting large quantities of the crustacean, mollusk, grouper, black grouper, and other finfish. This was publicly denounced by Mariano Canul Uicab, …