I would like to know what are the most important fishing ports in Mexico. Ideally, the information would be broken down into commercial, sport, and recreational. In particular, I am looking into fish landings, number of vessels, etc.
I was hoping to find some published piece of literature; however, so far I have had no luck.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Hi. For sport fishing, I believe is Cabo San Lucas. This was extracted from Zuñiga-Flores et al 2008:
"The most economically important sportfishing location in Mexico
is Cabo San Lucas (CSL), Baja California Sur (B.C.S.) where more
than 400 vessels of diverse dimensions make more than 25,000
fishing trips annually (Ortega et al., 2003)".
Mazatlán, Manzanillo, and Puerto Vallarta are important sportfishing locations as well.
For commercial landings, from empirical knowledge, I would go with Mazatlán, Manzanillo, Guaymas, Salina Cruz and Ensenada (probably not in that order). My experience is with Pacific-Coast fisheries only.
Full citation for the paper mentioned above is
Zuñiga-Flores, M.S., S. Ortega-García, A. Klett-Trauslen (2008). Interannual and seasonal variation of dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) catch rates in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico. Fish. Res. (94) 13 – 17 p.
Hope it helps.
Cheers.
Thomas,
I am not sure if you are aware of the "Sea Around Us" research group at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and their work on global fisheries. They have some fishweries data on Mexico that you may find useful, or even better you could contact them and they may be of assistance in pointing you in the right direction. Here is their web link: http://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/eez/945?chart=catch-chart&dimension=taxon&measure=tonnage&limit=10
I have also attached some additional papers that may interest you. The "References" in these papers may have information on data files that were used and that you may be able to access for your study.
Tomas
Guaymas, Sonora by all means. Just add up the Sardine, Squid, Finfish and Shrimp fishery and by volume I am positive that outperforms over Mazatlan, Sinaloa (Tuna, Shrimp and some Sardine + finfish). However I will double check with hard data of landings and will come back again to you
Kind regards
Antonio
Thomas,
You will find the information you need, broken down as you need in the next page http://www.gob.mx/conapesca/documentos/anuario-estadistico-de-acuacultura-y-pesca
Saludos
Horacio
First ,quick and dirty aproximation: On pages 88 and 90 of Horacio´s link (Fishery yearbook 2013 the last one) you will find agregated figures for Sinaloa (Mazatlan port) and Sonora (Guaymas port) states in México. The total fishery production for Sinaloa was 328,586 tons for that year (Peaking to 339,848 tons in 2007 of a 10 year time series). Sonora landings were the same year 675,398 tons (with a peak in 2009 of 808,380 tons). Sinaloa was the second place in landings and first in value in the country while Sonora was the first one in Landings and second in value that year (2013). If Mazatlan and Guaymas are the most important ports in both states, and the historical Sinaloa peak (2007) is lower that year 2013 Sonora production you can conclude by analogy that Guaymas is by far more important than Mazatlan!!!...Aparently there is no port comparative figure on landings on the yearbook. I will try to find hard data conclusisive evidence!!!! Cheers!!!
Antonio
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