Shrimp Ban Extended
Today, Tuesday, September 30, 2025, in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Fisheries (SADER) published the agreement that amends, for the second time this September, the April 30, 2025, agreement that established the ban on shrimp species in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Fisheries (SADER) reminds that the April 30, 2025, agreement established, among other things, a ban on all shrimp species from the first minute of June 1, 2025, until midnight on September 12, 2025, off the coast of the states of Campeche and Tabasco and the fishing grounds of Isla Contoy, Quintana Roo.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Fisheries (SADER) also reminds that on September 12, the shrimp ban was extended until 6:00 p.m. today, September 30.
On that occasion, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Fisheries (SADER) stated that it extended the ban “considering the population status of pink shrimp in the Campeche Sound and in order to protect the main reproductive peak, as well as the individual growth of recruits, to encourage the capture of more commercially favorable sizes at the end of the ban,” according to Technical Opinion No. RJL/IMIPAS/DIPA/573/2025, issued on August 26, 2025, by the Mexican Institute for Research in Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture (IMIPAS).
Today, Sader announced that the ban on all shrimp species off Tabasco, Campeche, and the Isla Contoy fishing grounds will be lifted starting at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15, as recommended by IMIPAS in Technical Opinion No. RJL/IMIPAS/DIPA/644/2025, issued on September 25, 2025, through its Atlantic Fisheries Research Directorate.
Thus, the shrimp fishing ban will last four and a half months off the coasts of Tabasco and Campeche and in the area of the Isla Contoy fishing grounds.
According to the 2024 Statistical Yearbook of Aquaculture and Fisheries, shrimp remains the third-largest producer in Mexico in terms of volume and first-largest in terms of production value.
In 2024, the five fisheries with the highest volumes were sardines, with 684,578 tons, equivalent to 31% of national production; anchovies, with 308,632 tons (14%); shrimp, with 258,577 tons (12%); tuna, with 194,875 tons (9%), and mojarra, with 77,341 tons (3%).
The most valuable fisheries were shrimp, with 20,330,496,000 pesos (43% of the value of national production), tuna with $2,809,421 (6%), mojarra with $2,664,224 (6%), octopus with $2,162,484 (5%), and sardines with $1,613,685 (3.4%), the Yearbook states.
Likewise, the 2024 Yearbook specifies that Sinaloa is the largest shrimp producer in Mexico and the Pacific, with 113,479 tons (100,884 from farmed shrimp, 8,049 from estuaries and bays, and 4,546 from open sea).
In the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, Tamaulipas is the “shrimp king,” with 8,036 tons (5,161 from open sea, 2,617 from estuaries and bays, and 257 from farmed shrimp), while Campeche is the regional “prince,” with 2,214 tons (1,138 from open sea and 1,076 from estuaries and bays).
Quintana Roo is the sixth and last regional shrimp producer, with 38 tons (all from open sea), after Veracruz, with 1,838 tons from sea, estuaries, and farmed shrimp. Tabasco, with 131 tons from the same three sources, and Yucatán, with 42 tons, all cultivated.
Source: yucatan
