US Accused Of Obstructing Mexican Tuna Farm Expansionff

The positive financial results of tuna farming in Baja California are motivating the United States to modify their laws in order to install fishing farms, currently forbidden by their own environmental regulation.

However, according to Mr. Andres Armenta, President of the Fishing Chamber of Baja California, the US together with environmental groups, are at the same time demanding that the Pacific Islands become Reserved Areas, therefore eliminating any possibility for Mexico to install more fishing farms.

Indeed several US fishing industrialists have presently started actions to pressure their legislators and Government in obtaining an amendment to the environmental regulations, which are currently being imposed. These regulations reject the possibilities to install different types of aquaculture industries for the farming of marine species.

In the meantime, other nations world wide have discovered aquaculture and marine farming to have great further development and business potential. For two decades these industries have shown increasingly strong commercial growth.

Fish farming, such as tuna fattening farms, among other species, are being successfully developed in several European countries, as well as in Australia, South America and Mexico.

The US have no share in this growing worldwide market, however are interested in joining it and commence by eliminating competition to proceed more successfully. The US’ main competitors are the Mexican tuna farms. Currently, subsidized conservationist groups pretend to convert these tuna farms located in the Pacific Ocean into reservations, and ensure that no other new tuna from projects are installed.