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Sustainable Fishing in Sinaloa Systemic Vision

Sustainable Fishing in Sinaloa Systemic Vision. Elena Díez Pinto May 1-6 2011. Artisan Ribere ñ o Fishing: Fishermen have doubled over past 30 years No other viable economic options Exclusivity in concessions lost to industriales 20 years ago marginalized politically.

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Sustainable Fishing in Sinaloa Systemic Vision

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  1. Sustainable Fishing in SinaloaSystemic Vision Elena Díez Pinto May 1-6 2011

  2. Artisan Ribereño Fishing: • Fishermen have doubled over past 30 years • No other viable economic options • Exclusivity in concessions lost to industriales 20 years ago • marginalized politically • Industrial Fishing: • Large well- financed and subsidized fleets • 2x catch of ribereños System OverviewGlobal Industrial Food System Ground-Zero Illegal Fishing • Industrial Shrimp Farming: • Hundreds of shrimp farms along lagoons • Water pumped into lagoon destroys shrimp and other species larva beds, antibiotics, disease and waste flushed out into lagoons • 3x total shrimp wild catch, 7 x ribereño catch • Contamination of Rivers • Untreated drainage from Culiacan and other minor towns flowing to lagoons • Modern Agriculture : • Thousands of square kilometers of crop farms (Sinaloa, Mexico`s largest fresh vegetables, grain and meat producer; most modern agriculture and chemical-intensive farms • Chemicals and run off washed right into lagoons, little treatment • 100x greater % of Sinaloa economy than artisan fishing

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