For decades the fishermen around the Santa Clara gulf in the Mexican state of Sonora have lived from fishing and selling jellyfish, a product that has no market in Mexico but sells well in Asia. This year the local industry was expecting a good season. But now the Sinaloa Cartel wants a piece of the multimillion business.
The “cannonball jellyfish” is one of a dozen sea products exported from Mexico to Singapore and Vietnam and leaving over $10 million in revenue during a three-month season, according to Mexican fishing authorities.
By this time of the year, the fishermen should be already processing tons of jellyfish to be sent to other major Mexican companies who run the export side of business. But June is over and no fisherman has dared to get into the sea. The threat is real: Heavily-armed cartel members are making sure no one goes out to fish.
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