Despite the 3 month fishing ban that has been imposed on the
fishermen of Ulloa deaths of loggerhead turtles continue.
It has repeatedly been argued that the prime reason for the
death of the loggerheads has been getting caught in fishing nets. But this is not a universally
held view. And Governor Carlos Mendoza Davis, says the continuing deaths are evidence
to the contrary.
Both he, and local politician Deputy Venustiano Pérez Sanchez, agree that -“The only
way to prove that fishermen are not responsible for this problem is a
scientific study validated by national and international authorities to say
what are the causes of the mortality of turtles."
Sanchez points out that the local fisherman were the
first to accept the conditions imposed by the authorities so that the causes of
mortality can be identified. And argues that
the authorites - Semarnat, Profepa and Conapesca - are thereby obliged to conduct a full scientific study to establish the underlying causes for the mass mortality
of the loggerhead turtles.