Capacity building to achieve sustainable fisheries management in Mexico

Achieving sustainable fisheries management is an enormous challenge and involves the enhancement of scientific and technological management capacities worldwide. The improvement of this capacity building (CB) is particularly crucial to developing countries with massive fisheries such as Mexico. To u...

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Published in:Ocean & coastal management 2011-10, Vol.54 (10), p.731-741
Main Authors: Espinoza-Tenorio, Alejandro, Espejel, Ileana, Wolff, Matthias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coastal zone management
Developing countries
Earth sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Exact sciences and technology
Fisheries
Geomorphology, landform evolution
Marine
Marine and continental quaternary
Mexico
research institutions
Surficial geology
sustainable fisheries
Technology
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Summary:Achieving sustainable fisheries management is an enormous challenge and involves the enhancement of scientific and technological management capacities worldwide. The improvement of this capacity building (CB) is particularly crucial to developing countries with massive fisheries such as Mexico. To understand the current status of CB in Mexico, the contemporary development of its academic research system was examined by undertaking a bibliographic review of specialized literature, including research institutions and postgraduate programs. The resulting information was considered as Mexican CB indicators and its theoretical and spatio-temporal analysis revealed capabilities are increasingly supporting research topics related to advancing sustainable fisheries development. However, because the recent and tumultuous development of the Mexican academic research system, much of the knowledge accumulated centers on commercial resources, and the renovation of the system itself is geographically inconsistent. In this paper, some key insights on how to improve Mexican CB process are highlighted. ► Mexican capacity building for fisheries management is being updated, albeit gradually. ► A new generation of scientists and institutions is using interdisciplinary approaches. ► The domestic capacities continues to support a single-species management system. ► The renovation of the scientific system in Mexico is geographically inconsistent. ► The current challenge is to update the research system considering regional priorities.
ISSN:0964-5691
1873-524X
DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.07.001