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Fisheries management tools to support coastal and marine spatial planning: A case study from the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico.

ABSTRACT: A management approach was developed that combined spatial and non-spatial tools to inform a Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Process (CMSP) in the Puerto Peñasco-Puerto Lobos Coastal Corridor, Northern Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico. Four fisheries management tools were applied with an emphasis on ecosystem level management for eleven small-scale fisheries. Two spatial management tools, using a spatial prioritization approach, were combined with a permit regularization process, a non-spatial quota prioritization, and a tradeoff analysis in a novel way: • Locally Managed Marine Areas were developed, these are spatial areas where individual community fishermen are assigned the rights to harvest and manage specific fisheries within defined geographic areas. • Fishery refuges that incorporate information on fisheries, ecological importance, and connectivity. • A non-spatial quota prioritization process using a framework for the integrated assessment of stocks, encompassing a vulnerability analysis, a sustainability analysis, and a management framework analysis. • A trade-off analysis of the combination of these different management tools, using an Atlantis ecosystem model for the northern Gulf of California, that tested the ecosystem effects of alternative scenarios to assess benefits in support of ecosystem-based management.

SUBMITTER: Morzaria-Luna HN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596294 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fisheries management tools to support coastal and marine spatial planning: A case study from the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico.

Morzaria-Luna Hem Nalini HN Turk-Boyer Peggy P Hernández José Manuel Dorantes JMD Polanco-Mizquez Elia E Downton-Hoffmann Caroline C Cruz-Piñón Gabriela G Carrillo-Lammens Tonatiuh T Loaiza-Villanueva Rene R Valdivia-Jiménez Paloma P Sánchez-Cruz Angeles A Peña-Mendoza Valeria V López-Ortiz Ariadna Montserrat AM Koch Volker V Vázquez-Vera Leonardo L Arreola-Lizárraga José Alfredo JA Amador-Castro Imelda G IG Suárez Castillo Alvin N AN Munguia-Vega Adrian A

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A management approach was developed that combined spatial and non-spatial tools to inform a Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Process (CMSP) in the Puerto Peñasco-Puerto Lobos Coastal Corridor, Northern Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico. Four fisheries management tools were applied with an emphasis on ecosystem level management for eleven small-scale fisheries. Two spatial management tools, using a spatial prioritization approach, were combined with a permit regularization process, a non-spat ...[more]

PMID: 33145184

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Fisheries management tools to support coastal and marine spatial planning: A case study from the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico.

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Fisheries management tools to support coastal and marine spatial planning: A case study from the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico.

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