Membership of fishing cooperative#
Sector: Fishery - “Who is allowed to fish” - Cultural and Community Approaches/Practices
Classification: MPA - Socio-ecosystem MPA - Limiting the activity
Description#
Fishing activity inside a MPA can require membership of fishing cooperative. For example, in a MPA in Mexico, cooperative members are permitted to commercially fish in one zone where commercial fishing is prohibited for other park users while another zone is directly under concession to the cooperative giving them exclusive commercial fisheries access.
Pegorelli et al. (2024). Guideline for the strategic and spatial measures for the nature inclusive operation of blue economy sectors – ESE 3 (Deliverable – D4.2., under the WP4 of MSP4BIO project (GA n° 101060707)).
External sources#
Management Program: national Park of Puerto Morelos, Mexico: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/coris/library/NOAA/Non-CRCP/non_crcp_publications/national_park_mgmt_prog_puerto_morelos_reefs.pdf