Also known as mahi mahi or dolphinfish, the average dorado is a meter-long package of muscle and puts up a hard fight once hooked, making it a prized trophy catch for sport fishers.
Foodies and restaurateurs love its sweet, mild meat — easily available and firm enough for a wide range of recipes. It matures quickly and spawns prolifically, producing millions of eggs a year.
For those and other reasons, dorado is an “excellent candidate” for commercial fishing, according to fishery biologist Dr. Fernando Márquez-Farías of the Sinaloa Autonomous University (UAS).
But for the time being, most dorado fishing in Mexico exists in legal gray areas, making it a prime example of what is known as IUU fishing — an acronym that stands for illegal, unreported and unregulated.
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