TY - JOUR
T1 - Warrior swimming crab fishing zones along the southwest Baja California peninsula, Mexico
AU - Ramírez-Rodríguez, Mauricio
AU - Castro-Salgado, Juan Carlos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - To improve the management of the warrior swimming crab (Callinectes bellicosus, Stimpson 1859) fishery along the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, catch, economic value and trip ticket frequency data, from 1998 to 2010, were analyzed by month and locality. Based on the geographic locations of fishing localities and their use frequencies, five fishing zones were identified. The relative contributions to the regional catch, economic value and frequency of use, as well as catch trends and fishing seasons, revealed differences between zones. The proposed zones can be used to design spatial management units that facilitate the monitoring of fishing efforts and evaluate the impacts of these efforts on the resource, economic performance and interactions with other fisheries. We discuss the advantages of the method used and its potential for identifying benchmarks, mainly related to fleet dynamics, in the absence of information regarding resource dynamics.
AB - To improve the management of the warrior swimming crab (Callinectes bellicosus, Stimpson 1859) fishery along the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, catch, economic value and trip ticket frequency data, from 1998 to 2010, were analyzed by month and locality. Based on the geographic locations of fishing localities and their use frequencies, five fishing zones were identified. The relative contributions to the regional catch, economic value and frequency of use, as well as catch trends and fishing seasons, revealed differences between zones. The proposed zones can be used to design spatial management units that facilitate the monitoring of fishing efforts and evaluate the impacts of these efforts on the resource, economic performance and interactions with other fisheries. We discuss the advantages of the method used and its potential for identifying benchmarks, mainly related to fleet dynamics, in the absence of information regarding resource dynamics.
KW - Callinectes bellicosus
KW - Fleet dynamics
KW - Small-scale fisheries
KW - Spatial management
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.12.004
DO - 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.12.004
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0964-5691
VL - 136
SP - 133
EP - 138
JO - Ocean and Coastal Management
JF - Ocean and Coastal Management
ER -