date:Aug 17, 2012
The Assistant Secretary for Fish Resources, Jimmy Martinez Ortiz, said the move is intended to protect the species and consumers as during this period, the crustaceans enter a stage of change, generating high concentrations of calcium oxalate, an element harmful to human health.
He said it is prohibited in all national territory to capture, transport, possess, process and market the crabs.
Seizures Control Directorate of Fisheries Resources SRP presented the results of the first crab closure f