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The U.S. State Department on Friday, 30 April announced in the Federal Register that it has suspended Mexico’s commercial shrimp fishery from exporting wild shrimp into the country because Mexico’s efforts to protect sea turtles are “no longer comparable to that of the United States.”
As a result, the only Mexican shrimp that can enter the U.S. must come from aquaculture operations.
Federal law prohibits the U.S. from accepting wild-caught shrimp imports unless federal officials certify that either the trading country has adopted measures to protect sea turtles and that the rate of incidence is comparable to U.S. fishing vessels or that the way the country’s shrimpers harvest shrimp does not threaten sea turtles.