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The “Échale Montón” fishing tournament arrives in San Nicolás, Loreto

The Échale Montón Tournament’s goal is to promote economic benefits for the community and activate tourism in the area.

The State System for the Integral Development of the Family (SEDIF) and the Fund for the Protection of Marine Resources (FONMAR) joined together to promote the development of communities that don’t have a high level of social interaction, to conduct a shore fishing tournament in San Nicolás on October 28. As part of the program, families and fishing fans gathered in Loreto.

With the participation of 57 registered adults and children, the tournament took place on the beach of San Nicolás, where attendees shared a time of healthy family harmony, and they competed to extract the best shore fishing in the “catch and release” concept, returning each specimen to the water after completion of the weigh in.

Omar De Jesús López, institutional liaison of the FONMAR “Échale Montón” program observed that through the State Government team, the administration headed by Prof. Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío, is present in the most remote communities and with a greater need to promote activities that display their unique character sponsoring economic community coexistence and sportfishing opportunities. This was the reason the Director of FONMAR, Martín Inzunza Tamayo contributed 30 thousand pesos for prizes.

The winners of the first five places took prizes of six thousand pesos, four thousand, three thousand, one thousand five hundred, and five hundred pesos, respectively, in the adult category: First Place: Gonzalo Esaú González Romero, Second Place: Loreto Quijano Bastida, Third Place: José Antonio Davis Espinoza, Fourth Place: Karla Saucedo López, and Fifth Place: Adrián Mayoral Romero.

In the children’s category: First Place: Jairo Alejandro Pelayo López, Second Place: Ricardo Javier Murillo Davis, Third Place: Karelia Roselin Varela Suárez, Fourth Place: Wendy Yoselin Murillo Romero, and Fifth Place: Terry Bastida Lopez.

Through these events, we seek to integrate communities that don’t have a high level of social interaction with tourists and productive activities to improve the inhabitants’ quality of life.

Marcelo Murillo, the subdelegate of San Nicolás, participated in the award ceremony, as well as. the president of the Fisheries Committee, Jesús Bastida Talamantes, as well as Evaristo Alfonso Susarrey Amador, Coordinator of FONMAR in Loreto, and Erick Enrique De La Vega Meza, Sub-Coordinator of FONMAR Fishing Tournaments.

Omar De Jesús López, institutional liaison of the FONMAR “Échale Montón” program observed that through the State Government team, the administration headed by Prof. Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío, is present in the most remote communities and with a greater need to promote activities that display their unique character sponsoring economic community coexistence and sportfishing opportunities.

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