In December 2020, the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Commission
(Conapesca) announced the start of the Fisheries Regularization Campaign, formalized through the National Program for the Regularization of the Legal Situation for the Welfare of
Fishermen 2020-2024.
The Campaign seeks to distribute permits to fishermen who have carried out the
activity without one, for various reasons, either due to lack
of resources, ignorance of the procedures or because they are salaried in the
service of those who hold the same titles.
Conapesca has
proposed several possible ways to carry out the issuance of new permits.
Through the analysis of official databases,
we will present information that Causa Natura has in relation to these
alternatives mentioned in order to contribute to the
public discussion of this very important topic for fishing in Mexico.
Current fishing rights holders
Currently
, cooperatives represent 54% of the total number of permit holders
for smaller vessels. While individuals
(individual permit holders) represent 38% of permits
for coastal fishing.
1 According to the locations reported in the Register
National Fisheries and Aquaculture, with information from the index of
marginalization of CONAPO 2010
.
2 According to the resolution of application no. 0819800000321
3 Esteban García-Peña Valenzuela (2019). Fishing Audit: Blind Fishing. OCEANA Mexico. Retrieved from: https://auditoriapesquera.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OCEANA_Reporte_Auditoria-pesquera_web..pdf
4
Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), 2020. Budget of
Expenditures of the Federation, Fiscal Year 2020. Consulted at: https://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx/es/PTP/datos_presupuestarios_abiertos
Secretariat
Department of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), 2019. Expenditure Budget for
the Federation, Fiscal Year 2019. Consulted at: https://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx/es/PTP/datos_presupuestarios_abiertos
5 Official information available at: https://www.gob.mx/conapesca/documentos/programa-ordenacion-pesquera
6
The entities reported were: Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, City of
Mexico, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, State of Mexico, Guanajuato,
Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Puebla,
Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tlaxcala, Yucatan and
Zacatecas
.
7 See Fishing Data, “Permissions and concessions with possible inconsistencies and missing information”, available at: https://pescandodatos.org/permisos_ojo_vigilante
8 According to the database provided via request for information, request no
. 0819700161620.
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