Oyster cultivation in the Mecoacán Lagoon: between uncertainty and oil spills

The water looks darker than usual. Women dive completely into the lagoon in the hope of saving the oyster crops that sustain their community life. The smell is suffocating; they breathe it in with force. Soon they understand that the effort is futile. The oysters have died because of an oil spill. This is how, once again, uncertainty begins. The spills in the Mecoacán lagoon entail economic and food precariousness that will last between three and six months.