PRODUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF RIVERSIDE FISHERIES IN PUERTO SAN CARLOS, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MÉXICO

Abstract

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 extractiveproductive
situation 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.