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Mexican fishermen tend to their nets on Bagdad Beach, just south of the Texas-Mexico border. Red snapper poaching along the Gulf is a multi-million dollar black market.
Updated July 18, 2021 at 5:33 PM ET
It s the hidden U.S.-Mexico border war.
For years, Mexican fisherman have crossed into U.S. waters to illegally catch high-priced red snapper. It has become a multi-million dollar black market, the Mexican cartel is involved, Texas fishermen are outraged, and the federal government can t seem to stop it.
The U.S. Coast Guard on South Padre Island has a one-of-a-kind mission among the 197 stations along the nation s seacoasts. Their chief enforcement activity entails bouncing across the swells of the lower Texas Gulf in pursuit of wily Mexican fishing boats filled with plump, rosy fish destined for seafood houses in Mexico City and Houston.
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South Texas fisherman lands state record bluefin tuna off Port Aransas coast
The 876-pound tuna took nine hours to reel in
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A South Texas fisherman landed an 876-pound bluefin tuna on April 13 about 140 miles off the coast of Port Aransas, breaking a nearly 40-year state record. (Courtesy, Port Aransas Fisherman s Wharf)
A South Texas fisherman landed a whopper 876-pound bluefin tuna last month about 150 miles off the coast of Port Aransas, breaking a nearly 40-year state record.
Fisherman Troy Lancaster caught the 121-inch female tuna on April 13 while fishing for marlin with Capt. Justin Drummond aboard a private boat called Quantified, officials with the Port Aransas Fisherman’s Wharf told KSAT.
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