Cevasco · Conomex · Wild caught
Wild Blue Mexican Shrimp
Litopenaeus stylirostris
The blue shrimp of the Mexican Pacific. Shell-on, size graded by count.
Clean origins · Wild caught
Wild-caught from the Sea of Cortez.
Landed by two fishing cooperatives on the Mexican Pacific coast, and traceable to the one that caught it.
The company
Del Cortez brings wild-caught seafood from the Sea of Cortez to the American table, traceable to the cooperative that landed it.
Del Cortez Seafood is a United States trading company. It buys wild-caught seafood from two fishing cooperatives on the Mexican Pacific coast — Cevasco and Conomex — and sells it to American restaurants, distributors, grocers and households.
The company does not own the boats and does not claim to. It handles the cold chain, customs, grading, documentation and the American commercial relationship, while the origin stays legible all the way to the label.
What we fish
Two species carry the business
Both are native to the Sea of Cortez, and both are landed by Cevasco and Conomex members. Size grades and pack formats are confirmed at the time of quote.
Cevasco · Conomex · Wild caught
Blue Crab
Callinectes bellicosus
Known locally as jaiba café. A commercial blue crab native to the Gulf of California.
Sourcing
Two cooperatives, one water
The Sea of Cortez — the Gulf of California, between the Baja peninsula and the Mexican mainland — is one of the most biologically rich bodies of water in the world. The fishing there is artisanal: small boats, small crews, gear set and pulled by hand, a day’s catch rather than a season’s haul.
Cevasco
A fishing cooperative of the Sea of Cortez. Its members hold their own fishing rights and share the proceeds of what they land.
Conomex
A fishing cooperative of the Sea of Cortez, tracing its origins to the indigenous fishing communities of the region.
Permits
Between them, Cevasco and Conomex hold the only CONAPESCA wild-capture permits for these two species in the Yavaros region of the Sea of Cortez. The same permits cover five further species.
| Permitted species | Cooperative |
|---|---|
| Shrimpcamarón | Cevasco · Conomex |
| Blue crabjaiba | Cevasco · Conomex |
| Giant squidcalamar gigante | Cevasco |
| Sea snailcaracol chino | Cevasco |
| Sharktiburón | Conomex |
| Finfishescama marina | Conomex |
| Mulletlisa | Conomex |
Del Cortez sells shrimp and blue crab. The rest are landed under the same permits — ask if you need them.
Both cooperatives are member-owned rather than vessels owned by a processor, and both still fish grounds those communities have worked for generations. They keep their own names and their own marks; Del Cortez carries their catch under one commercial brand, and credits the cooperative by name wherever origin is stated.
Traceability
Cooperative · landing date · lot number, on every case.
Three facts travel with the fish, from the boat to the buyer’s dock.
01
Cooperative
Cevasco or Conomex, named — never merged into a single anonymous origin.
02
Landing date
The day the catch came off the boat, not the day it was packed or shipped.
03
Lot number
Carried on the case and on the paperwork, so a case can be matched to its landing.
Wholesale
Who we sell to
Restaurants & chefs
Species, size grade, seasonality and consistency — the animal, the water, the week.
Wholesale distributors
Volume, pack format, lead time and documentation.
Retail grocers
Origin and provenance a shelf can carry and a shopper can trust.
Direct buyers
Good, wild, and honestly described — without the trade vocabulary in the way.
Tell us the species, the grade and the volume.
We will come back with pack formats and a price.