This restaurant in Polanco serves totoaba, is it legal?

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The vaquita porpoise is on the verge of extinction. The incidental capture of this porpoise endemic to the Gulf of California in Mexico could not be understood without the illegal nets that pursue the coveted totoaba fish: a kilo of its swim bladder can cost more than $50,000 in Asia. It is for these reasons that a Twitter user has reported the sale of a dish containing totoaba in a restaurant in Polanco. The information has been shared on this network and replicated by different national media. This led the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) to issue a statement to clarify the case. “The General Wildlife Law allows the commercial use of totoaba reproduced in captivity through the Management Units for the Conservation of Wildlife (UMA),” the document reads. The agency explains that in Mexico there are six totoaba UMAs that have the required permit. One of them, Earth Ocean Farms, is cited as the UMA of origin of the fish that the Cuines restaurant acquires. Roberto Gómez, manager of the restaurant, told Verne by telephone that totoaba has been served there for approximately four years.

We had never received complaints or complaints about it, this is the first time, we don't understand why," he says. He reiterated that the restaurant makes this dish completely legally. "What SEMARNAT says is enough, there is nothing more to add." It has been 4 days since my complaint on social networks to nothing happens, they continue to offer Totoaba in Masarik According to the government office, one of the Europe Cell Phone Number List conditions for these UMAs is that they allocate approximately half of the juvenile totoaba population to repopulate the species in its natural habitat. “From 2014 to date, these UMAs have released more than 200 thousand individuals in the Gulf of California. The objective is to promote the sustainable use and reproduction of totoaba to counteract illegal fishing and trafficking of the species,” reports SEMARNAT. Miguel Rivas, oceans campaigner for Greenpeace Mexico, confirmed the information to Verne. “Totoabas that grow in captivity can be marketed in national territory,” says the also doctor in Biological Sciences. What would be illegal, he adds, is to find this dish in a country other than Mexico, since this fish cannot be exported. The totoaba is included in appendix one of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which means that it is among the most vulnerable species.



The vaquita porpoise is on the verge of extinction. The incidental capture of this porpoise endemic to the Gulf of California in Mexico could not be understood without the illegal nets that pursue the coveted totoaba fish: a kilo of its swim bladder can cost more than $50,000 in Asia. It is for these reasons that a Twitter user has reported the sale of a dish containing totoaba in a restaurant in Polanco. The information has been shared on this network and replicated by different national media. This led the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) to issue a statement to clarify the case. “The General Wildlife Law allows the commercial use of totoaba reproduced in captivity through the Management Units for the Conservation of Wildlife (UMA),” the document reads. The agency explains that in Mexico there are six totoaba UMAs that have the required permit. One of them, Earth Ocean Farms, is cited as the UMA of origin of the fish that the Cuines restaurant acquires. Roberto Gómez, manager of the restaurant, told Verne by telephone that totoaba has been served there for approximately four years.