Illegal Fishing in Progreso: Boat Carrying Queen Conch Lands on Perez Island

PROGRESO.— In a joint operation, members of the Navy, through the Mexican Navy, and personnel from the National Commission for Aquaculture and Fisheries (Conapesca) seized a shipment of 132 kilograms of queen conch, a species under permanent ban, on a vessel located near Isla Pérez, on the northern coast of Yucatan. They ask for help and are detected with illegal fishing. According to a bulletin from the naval agency, the events occurred when pe…