Mexico’s foreign minister suggested that much of the cross-border fishing was accidental.
The Mexican skiffs are loaded not with drugs or migrants, but with red snapper, sea turtles and sharks.
The U.S. Coast Guard apprehended 208 Mexican fishermen in 78 skiffs for illegal cross-border fishing in the 2021 fiscal year, seizing 15,484 pounds of marine life from the boats.“It’s not infrequent to detain the same offender 10, 20 or 30 times,” said Lt. Cmdr. Dan Ippolito, commanding officer of Coast Guard Station South Padre Island.
“Sometimes it is hard to determine the exact line,” Marcelo Ebrard told reporters. “It’s not something intentional.”
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