GOM Trip Reports of Mexican Fishermen

HYPOCRISY = the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.


"thousands of white colonists, cattleman, adventures, and mercenaries, were coming from other parts of North America that had been already invaded and occupied looking for land and gold they could find and obtain “by any means"

Mexicans should have built a wall to keep out the white colonists.

 

Hypocrisy - Complaining about white people taking "your" land,
when you took the land from the brown (indian) people living there previously.


"The stories of Texas didn't begin with the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s.
Hundreds of different groups of native peoples with a variety of languages, customs, and beliefs lived on the land for at least 11,000 years before the arrival of Europeans.
For the American Indians, Texas had long been their world.
The land, the life, and even the other native peoples they encountered were already familiar.
It was the explorers who were new.

By the time those explorers got to the new world, American Indians had created long arcs of histories and cultures in Texas.
From the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle, from the piney eastern woods to the barren southwestern plains, native peoples had established themselves as traders, hunters, food-collectors, artisans, and healers.
They had crafted ways of life based on what the land required. They had forged and broken alliances, competed for resources, and traded with each other for centuries.
American Indian tribes such as the Karankawa, Caddo, Apache, Comanche, Wichita, Coahuiltecan, Neches, Tonkawa,
and many others had already written extensive chapters in the story of Texas by the 16th century.

 

Four lanchas arrested for illegal fishing in US waters

US Coast Guard law enforcement crews detected and interdicted four lancha boat crews engaged in illegal fishing of US waters near southern Texas, on from Sunday, March 11, to Tuesday, March 13.

USCG stopped four lanchas with 20 Mexican fishermen conducting illegal fishing.
Four lancha boats, 100 red snapper and fishing gear were seized.
The Mexican fishermen were detained and transferred to border enforcement agents for processing.


100 red snapper

 

Two more lancha crews interdicted over illegal fishing in US
The US Coast Guard law enforcement crews detected and interdicted two lancha boat crews engaged in illegal fishing in federal waters, off southern Texas, on Saturday morning and Sunday night.

A total of seven Mexican fishermen were detained and transferred to border enforcement agents for processing. In addition, the two lancha boats, along with fishing gear, and 1,680 pounds of red snapper, grouper, pufferfish, shark and eel were seized.

1,680 pounds of red snapper,
grouper, pufferfish, shark and eel

 

My understanding the Panga design was invented by the
Japanese after WW2.

Was used in Mexico by the Japanese to fish inshore waters
using a larger mothership to transport the fish back to their markets.

Panga's are great little boats.
Can abuse and overload them and they still get the job done.

 

April 11
The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a crew of fisherman Wednesday morning
with nearly 2,000 pounds of illegally caught fish.

Crews stopped a Mexican lancha boat crew illegally fishing off the South Texas coast.
Three Mexican fishermen allegedly caught nearly 1,000 pounds of red snapper
and almost 800 pounds of shark.

The Coast Guard confiscated the snapper and shark.
The fishermen were handed over to U.S. Border Patrol agents.

1,000 pounds Red Snapper
800 pounds Shark.