The demand for sea products increases in general for this season, which includes fish, shrimp and mollusks.
According to Manuel Ixquiac, of the Caribbean Research Institute of Izabal (IICI) attached to the University Center of Izabal de la Usac (Cunizab), it is the tilapia that reports the highest growth at the general level and currently It represents about 50% of the hydrobiological ones that are marketed for the season.
This includes both national production and imports, both legal and the income made of smuggling, which come from Honduras, El Salvador and Honduras, says the researcher.
Another of the most demanded products is shrimp, of which there is also national production and part that is brought from abroad. The shrimp is offered both fresh or prepared dry-saved, it was added.
The offer includes both the Marine and Pacific marine production, as well as national aquaculture and imports, mainly from Honduras.
Also, by tradition in the season the consumption of dry fish is increased.
Price behavior
The shrimp price shows stable behavior From the first week of Lent to last weekend when Holy Week starts, according to the data of the Planning Department (Diplan) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (Maga).
The average weekly price paid to the wholesaler is monitored during the season inside the La Terminal market, zone 4 capital.
The shrimp with a head, in small, medium and large sizes, produced in pond, records prices per quintal of Q1 thousand 750, Q2 Mi 500 and Q3 thousand 300, respectively.
From the headless shrimp, the price than the previous one has also remained stable in the season, with Q2 thousand, Q3 thousand and Q3 thousand 550 the quintal in respectively.
Those who report rise are, the whole corvine to Q1 thousand 400 the quintal with increase of Q100; The Corvina fillet is in Q3 thousand 775 the quintal with an increase of Q125.
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In addition to the entire, scrambled, was quoted on Q3 thousand 400, with Q200 of increase, while the
Róbalo fillet, Q100 to Q1 thousand 900, the quintal. Meanwhile, the entire shark, scrambled, went up in the Q250 season and reached Q2 thousand according to the report between March 7 and April 11, and the fillet reached Q2 thousand 150 with a rise of Q150.
The tilapia reported casualties in the season since Q140 and Q200, depending on the size, and the weekend was quoted in Q1 thousand 200, Q1 thousand 300 and Q1 thousand 500, respectively the small, median and large.
There are those who like a shark or also of Balacao, Ixquiac said that there is both national and imported, but the latter at major prices that is not intended for the popular market.
In the Altiplano, there is quite fish catfish that is prepared dry-saved, and others.
In general consumption, Bowers, Mojarras, Tilapias and Róbalo among others are mentioned, and the dry-saved preparations such as Dorado, Shark, Sherla, Meros, Rayas, Robalo, Jurel, Sierra or Macarela and Bacalao.
Dry fish pound is quoted between Q55 and Q100 in markets in the capital.
The researcher says that there is a well-marked differentiation of the consumption of dry-salad products in the west of the country compared to consumption in the capital city.
In the Altiplano there are quite a lot of dry-salad fish whose gastronomy is different from that of the metropolitan area.
Consider that it is normal for prices for the Lent and Holy Week derived from the greatest demand, also the preparation. Although he says that the tradition of preparing some foods is also lost but at the time there is a high demand for hydrobiological.
Vegetables and fruits
Among the most used vegetables are those that are related to the preparation of dishes of the time and as sauces, tanned, coliflores and others.
In the case of the tomato, Q29 went up during Lent, and is quoted in Q106 the medium kitchen tomato box that has about 45 to 50 pounds.
They also report increases, the cauliflower rose Q20.80 the 12 -units bag remaining in Q100.80, the cabbage, with Q8 more reaching Q34 the network of 12 units; The beet in Q40.50 increased Q3 the network of 4 to 5 dozen. Others with increases with Chile (which increased 31.5%) pepper, lettuce, ejote and radish.
The died onion reports low of Q105 the quintal, leaving in Q285, and the bank in Q249, whose decline was Q91.
Others with casualties are cucumber, good grass, sweet peas. And stable the carrot and coriander.
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In fruits, most monitored reports. Among them the season, Like the Mangos Tommy and Pashte, which fell between Q320 and Q359 a hundred, and were quoted in Q255 and Q241 respectivelysince at the beginning of Lent had not yet started the harvest and there was no offer in the market or it was very little.
He also lowered pineapple, orange and melon.
Upwards, they report watermelon, zapote and papaya.
In the case of the lemon, the Persian rose Q105, reaching Q1 thousand 75 the thousand, and the Creole, lowered Q100 a quoting to Q400 a thousand.