In the waters off Mexico, fishing for this vital marine creature is prohibited. It still happens.
PROGRISO, Mexico – Ricardo Dominguez Cano gazed into the thick blue sea of the Yucatan Peninsula as he recalled a different era, before a vital marine animal was endangered. “The sea cucumber was nothing special, until the prices started to go up a lot,” Cano, 47, told Noticias Telemundo. Then many other people came [Mexican] …