ANÁLISIS PRODUCTIVO DE PESQUERÍAS RIBEREÑAS DE PUERTO SAN CARLOS, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MÉXICO

The study is focused on the case of artisanal fisheries in the locality of Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur, México, whose action area is the Complejo Lagunar Bahía Magdalena; this is a place where appropriation of wealth is sustained by the management of fishing products. Through obtaining quantitative data from the processes of fishing extraction a database was constructed with economic, social and productive information of artisanal fisheries in the zone, with the purpose of making possible an analysis from the generation of an updated source of data that shows the extractiveproductivesituation of the community. In order of importance, according to the volume of annual extraction, fishing of scale fish is the one that reports highest values of extraction, followed by estuary shrimp, and then king clam. However, in terms of levels reported of monetary profit, as a result of these activities, the estuary shrimp is the first place with regard to profit, followed by scale fish and king clam fishery.El estudio se enfoca en el caso de las pesquerías artesanales de la localidad Puerto San Carlos, en Baja California Sur, México, cuya área de acción es el Complejo Lagunar Bahía Magdalena; lugar donde la apropiación de riqueza se sustenta en el manejo de los productos pesqueros. Mediante la obtención de datos cuantitativos de los procesos de extracción pesquera se construyó una base de datos con información económica, social y productiva de las pesquerías artesanales de la zona, con el propósito de posibilitar un análisis a partir de la generación de una fuente de datos actualizada que muestre la situación extractiva-productiva de la comunidad. Por orden de importancia conforme a volumen de extracción anual, la pesquería de escama marina es la que reporta mayores valores de extracción, seguida por la pesquería de camarón de estero y terciada por la de almeja generosa. Sin embargo en cuanto a niveles reportados de entrada de dinero, producto de estas actividades, el camarón de estero ocupa el primer lugar en cuanto a obtención de divisas, seguido de la escama marina y la pesquería de almeja generosa

Regionalization of fish production in Mexico based on production value data in MXN pesos.

Objective: Generate a fishing regionalization activity in Mexico based on the economic criteria due to thevalue of fishery production.Design/Methodology/Approach: Socioeconomic data was taken as well as analyzed from the StatisticalYearbook of Aquaculture and Fisheries of fisheries in Mexico. Subsequently, the findings were organizedin a database with geospatial referent reclassified into nominal or ordinal qualitative statistical values. Thereclassification process was done through the use of a Geographic Information System, specifically withArcview 3.2 software, which allowed the generation of geostatistical analysis procedures through the use ofthe Kriging tool.Results: The results are displayed in a visually referenced database shown on a map constructed by datavectorization. The regionalization map of fisheries in Mexico is based on economic criteria of production valueclassified in four zones with different fishing priority.Limitations/implications: The lack of studies and social, economic and productive indexes of the Mexicanfishery is a limitation in the work of regionalization of fishing activity.Findings/conclusions: The efficiency of the use of Kriging as a multispecific analysis tool can be proven.The proposed regionalization is based solely on the monetary value, an item that has a greater weight inthe decisions made by the institutions, due to its importance in terms of Mexico’s Gross Domestic Product.These criteria together with the use of computational tools allowed the geolocalized regional categorizationof zones with similar characteristics classified into four fishing regions according to their degree of economicimportance: low, medium, high and main