Many people applauded Costa Rica for outlawing shrimp trawling last year. The new ruling has survived many court challenges and even today the shrimp industry and INCOPESCA, which manages the country’s fisheries, is doing technical studies on a supposedly sustainable type of trawling.
Henry Marin, a socioeconomic expert and project manager for FECOP, an organization that advocates for sports fishing and of sustainable fishing in Costa Rica, understands that conservation also has a social cost.
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