PERU fishing with guts to report…
The Fishing Seaflower Biosphere Reserve is a matter of life for thousands of inhabitants of the archipelago. This system may obtain scientific and technical information on species and maximum sustainable yields.
After the Judgment of the International Court of Justice, which turned one last November, several foreign vessels have been captured by the Navy for illegal tasks Lobster, conch, fish and even sharks.
But the arrival of foreign ships is just one of the problems threatening the preservation of artisanal fisheries in the Department Archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina, which being declared Biosphere Reserve becomes a geostrategic area between
"Traditionally, residents have stocked natural fish production animals like the spiny lobster, snail shovel, Crabs and various species of fish such as snappers, groupers, tuna, barracuda, among others, the list totals more than
Fishing in the islands, according to the professor, went from subsistence and artisanal which was to extract only the diary and store the rest in a natural way in the framework of the defendant by the residents, visitors and even restaurants
Later, banks made efforts to make sustainable management of resources and activity as a whole. National, local and even international agencies have contributed support regulations, information analysis and management bets amid an active participation of fishermen, marking emerging governance processes in search of environmental balance, Santos explains the professor.
For better management
So before this fishing problems in Seaflower Reserve and after several investigations conducted and funded by the UN, the System Sustainable Fishery Management (SIMASPE), software designed as an alternative to seafood sustainability arises.
The application is ready to be put online storage and use present major problems. It contains two modules, a system of environmental information and a simulator of the trend of sustainability. These are fed with information collected and the results and analysis of research conducted (publications, tables, images and maps).
In the case of the simulator, the percentage of each dimension is displayed in the form of light, in a color scale from green (more sustainable) to red (less sustainable).
The SIMASPE was made on marine fisheries and the spiny lobster (Panulirusargus), the Caracol blade (Strombus gigas) and a variety of fish (mainly snappers, groupers, Saws, Tuna, Grunts, Jacks, Barracudas and Dorados, etc. ) of San Andrés and Providencia. However you can adapt and adjust to other fisheries, such as continental or other areas.
This tool was consolidated with the engineering development of Augusto Cesar Aguirre, a student of Electrical Engineering at the UN Manizales, as part of the Internship Program and Mobility Caribbean Headquarters.
Meanwhile, Adriana Santos, head of the design ensures that the program contains the maximum sustainable yields of commercially important stocks, which can make the simulations and understand the trends of this resource in terms of environmental sustainability.
Manejo integral
As in the rest of the Caribbean and the world, depletion of fish stocks is marked. As documented by the FAOrecientemente a marine production of 77.4 million tons from 2005 shows reductions of 6.4%. In this, the Caribbean represents only 1.6%, but with the added difficulty decreases near 35% in recent years.
This is explained in part by the oil spill in 2010 (Macondo Well), which shrank by 100,000 tonnes catches in America. Some projections worldwide report that about 80% of commercially important species are fully exploited or overexploited, and in the case of the Caribbean this figure may be higher.
In Colombia there is a wealth of marine fish species is 2,000, of which 28 are listed in the Red Book to be threatened; Caribbean and some are, most are present in the archipelago and are of commercial importance, such as Serranidae and Scaridae.
"This list is conservative and it is likely that several species are integrated mainly by threats such as Fisheries. There are also other threats to biodiversity natural order, although larger ones that are the result of human activities such as pollution, changes in ecosystems and climate change, "warns Professor Santos.
Therefore, the challenge ahead for Seaflower Biosphere Reserve is a model of integrated and sustainable management of the fishery for the benefit of communities and ecosystems in the Wider Caribbean.
SOURCE: Elespectador.com
