MEXICAN raSH?.RY LEGISLATION 



APPENDIX XI 



Directorate General of 

 Fisheries and Allied Industries 



Office of the Director 



OFFICIAL CTRCULAR B-^- 



Sharks should be fully utilized. 



Mexico, D.F., November 12, 19^1 



You are advised that some shark exploiters utilize only the livers, throwing away the 

 rest of the animal, and as this waste is unnecessary and produces an injury to the national 

 econcmy, since the hides and fins can be exported and the salt-dried meat is acceptable in 

 the local markets where it can be sold at low prices within reach of the poor, you are 

 requested to notify the permissionnaires of their obligation to utilize that fishery product 

 in its entirety, which they shall prove to the satisfaction of the enforcement employees of 

 this Directorate; if necessary you are to apply Article 59, section II of the Fishery 

 Regulation, to punish violators. 



The regulation referred to says: 



"Article 59 • Tlithout prejudice to the prohibiticms of a special nature established in 

 Title IV of this Regulation, it is absolutely prohibited: 



"11. To throw in maritime or fluvial waters or to abandon on the shores or banks, 

 fishery products and their waste matter, except under the circumstances covered by Article 91 

 of this Regulation." 



Very truly yours, 



THE ASSISTANT DIRECTCR 



Eduardo F. Garrido 



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