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Write: Marichuy Garduño
Photo: Bertha Herrera. @BERTHA HERRERA
The sea, sky and climate of Ejido of Eréndira is located in the municipality of Ensenada, Baja California. It is a place that is 20 meters above sea level. This area, due to its characteristics, has been cultivated abalone. A mollusk of great esteem among the gourmets for the great taste of its meat. On this site the red abalone, The biggest in the world.
It is seated in the Bay of All Saints, a port where tourist and fishing activity are combined. It is the ideal place for the production of this delicacy.
Another factor to highlight in the ejido is your vegetable growing like artichokes, Brussels sprouts, asparagus and chives. And on the sea side is the tradition of sport fishing, which in summer is the capture of the mackerel.
Abalone, a cultivated delicacy
This mollusk has a ear-shaped shell, generally oval and with the convex and rough external surface. Also, it has a series of holes aligned on the region corresponding to the respiratory cavity; the first of them is the largest. On the shell they are located numerous organisms. They are usually crustaceans of the genre balanus, microscopic and macroscopic plants, including some stony algae of the genre Coralline.
The abalone cultivation reach a size of three inches in four years. On the contrary, those of the sea reach a size of 35 centimeters, size that they reach in 15 years.
These mollusks are cultivated in tanks for about 4 years until they reach a size of about three or four inches. Letting it grow more is not profitable, since its maintenance can be high.
En Mexico the main areas of abalone are: the western part of the peninsula of Low California, From the Coronado islands in the north to the southern tip of the Margarita Island. The highest production of this mollusk is obtained in the area between Punta San Pablo and Punta Abreojos in Baja California.
