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Del Pacifico Culture & Adventure La Revista De Baja California Sur summer / verano 2021 #49 The ULTIMATE GUIDE to ournal Baja Sur Arts, jDEL PACIFICO Culture & Adventure La Revista de Baja California Sur The State of Aquaculture in Baja California Sur El Estado de la Acuicultura en Baja California Sur Summer in the Sur Verano en el Sur Hot Paws Patas Calientes Miguel’s Restaurant Mini Super Munchies Banking in Mexico by / por Mikayla Jones Todos Santos La Paz Pescadero San José del Cabo El Triunfo Loreto ournal jDEL PACIFICO La Revista de Baja California Sur PROUDLY PUBLISHED & PRINTED IN MEXICO [email protected] Publisher JANICE KINNE 6 [email protected] 24 & 25 8 cell (612) 154-4043 Customer Service Manager CELIA DEVAUlt [email protected] cell (612) 152-0823 Contributors IVONNE BENÍTEZ DAVID DIVJAK 10 EARTH OCEAN FARMS MINdy THEO DI VINCENZO ROC FLEISHMAN BERNANDO GONZALEZ MOLINA BRYAN JÁUREGUI DAVID RODRIGO JIMÉNEZ JEN JONES MIkayla JONES english RICARDO MADRAZO Banking in Mexico ...............................................................................................40 SOL AZUL Beaches / Playas .................................................................................................33 El Cielo: The Baja Sky .........................................................................................27 KAIA THOMSON Events ..................................................................................................................20 Finding Sanctuary: The State of Aquaculture in Baja California Sur ..................6 journaldelpacifico.com Groups .................................................................................................................44 JournaldelPacifico Hot Paws ..............................................................................................................43 La Paz Beaches ....................................................................................................36 Copyrights: Mexican & Miguel’s Restaurant in Todos Santos Celebrates 20 Years! ................................8 International. 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En la Portada .......................................................................................................45 Eventos ................................................................................................................38 Prohibida la Reproducción Grupos .................................................................................................................44 parcial o total de cualquier texto, Hallando Santuario: El Estado de la Acuicultura en Baja California Sur ...........6 elemento de diseño, mapa, Mini Super Munchies ..........................................................................................10 fotografía o anuncio por cualquier ¡Patas Calientes!..................................................................................................42 medio mecánico, electrónico, Verano en el Sur ..................................................................................................25 digital o por inventarse sin permiso explicito escrito por el publicador. maps / mapas Todos Santos—El Centro ............................................................................28 – 29 FALL / OTOÑO 2021 ISSUE Todos Santos—El Otro Lado ...............................................................................30 DeaDline: SePT. 18, 2021 Todos Santos—Pescadero Corridor & Beaches / Playas ...................................32 FeCHa liMiTe: 18 De SePT. 2021 4 Journal del Pacifico Finding Sanctuary: The State of Aquaculture in Baja California Sur Hallando Santuario: El Estado de la Acuicultura en Baja California Sur by / por Bryan Jáuregui traducido por Ricardo Madrazo photo by / foto por Earth Ocean Farms It is a shocking thing to pick up the menu in a favored Es impactante descubrir en el menú de un restaurante restaurant and see a critically endangered species, que el especial del día es una especie en peligro crítico, beautifully prepared, as the daily special. It is a thing worth bellamente preparada. Vale la pena investigar cuando vas a investigating to walk into another restaurant and find otro restaurante y descubres que su razón de ser es servir that its raison d’etre is serving up that same species as esa misma especie como un simple platillo de fish ‘n chips. nothing more noble than fish ‘n chips. Sometimes, a little A veces, un poco de conocimiento es algo peligroso. knowledge is a dangerous thing. La totoaba es una especie de pez marino endémica del The totoaba is a marine fish species endemic to the Sea Golfo de California. Actualmente se encuentra en la Lista of Cortez. It is now on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Roja de Especies Amenazadas de la UICN y está catalogada Species and listed as “critically endangered” due to Chinese como “en peligro crítico” debido a la demanda de su vejiga demand for the fish’s swim bladder, which is considered a natatoria en China, donde se considera un manjar. Sin great delicacy. But that is not why Pablo Konietzko, founder embargo, fueron otras las razones que llevaron a Pablo of Earth Ocean Farms (EOF) in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Konietzko, fundador de Earth Ocean Farms (EOF) en La Paz, started raising totoaba at his state-of-the-art facility. “We a dedicarse a la cría de totoaba. “Elegimos la totoaba para chose the totoaba for our program because it grows nuestro programa porque crece rápido, sabe bien, y hace fast, tastes good, and schools well. That is, it is perfect buen cardumen. Es decir, es perfecta para la acuicultura.” for aquaculture.” Pablo, a Colombian with a degree from Pablo es colombiano, titulado en la Universidad de Texas Texas A&M, came to La Paz twelve years ago with a view A&M, y vino a La Paz hace doce años con el fin de lograr to achieving what many fish farms aspire to but often fall lo que muchos piscicultivos aspiran pero pocos logran: short of: raising fish sustainably. A look at the “honeymoon criar peces de manera sustentable. Su nuevo y flamante suite” in his brand-spanking-new hatchery in Pichilingue criadero en Pichilingue nos da una idea de de esta gives you an idea of what he means. “We raise both filosofía. “Aquí en Earth Ocean Farms criamos totoaba y totoaba and huachinango, or red snapper here at Earth huachinango. Mantenemos a los reproductores de ambas Ocean Farms. We support the brood stock of both species especies en un ambiente muy controlado. Los tanques in a very controlled environment. The tanks are maintained se ubican en espacios con un ambiente completamente in rooms with a completely calm atmosphere, and the tranquilo, y la iluminación y la temperatura del agua se lighting and water temperature are moderated to produce ajustan para reproducir las condiciones habituales de su the conditions of their regular mating season. The fish are época de apareamiento. Los peces no sufren estrés, gozan under no stress, they’re fed an extremely nutritious diet, a de una dieta sumamente nutritiva, un sistema moderno modern filtration system whisks away their excretions, and de filtración elimina rápidamente sus deshechos, y los the oxygen and temperature levels are all computerized.” niveles de oxígeno y temperatura son controlados por That is to say, the deck is stacked for reproductive success. computadora.” Es decir, tiene todo a su favor para el éxito The fish do look extremely relaxed in their tanks and the reproductivo. Los peces se ven extremadamente relajados results are a testimony to EOF’s efforts: 96% of the eggs en sus tanques y los resultados hablan por sí mismos: produced by the females are successfully fertilized by the el 96% de los huevos producidos por las hembras son males. fertilizados exitosamente. ACUICULTURA continúa en página 12 6 Journal del Pacifico Then it gets interesting. Leaving nothing to chance, EOF produces its own phytoplankton, or microscopic marine algae, in tightly controlled laboratory conditions. The algae starts off in a laboratory tube, graduates to a beaker, jumps to a plastic bag, then completes its transformation into the very foundation upon which all marine life depends in a tank that a science fiction writer would find compelling. The whole process takes about 12 days, with the algae increasing in color from a very pale yellow to a rich brown. Feeding on this perfectly concocted cuisine, the fish larva advances to the nursery phase and after about 100 days it is big and strong enough to take to the sea. It sounds simple enough but consider all those baby fish swimming in a tank, taking in food, pushing out feces, taking in oxygen, pushing out CO2. This is why EOF has an advanced recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) that not only controls water temperature but removes those undesirable elements and maintains water quality as well. Notes Pablo, “Many other hatcheries
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