Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Mexico: an idea traveling across borders
Abstract
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has gained acceptance around the world as an integrated
approach to management based on science that considers the entire ecosystem, including
humans. I analyze two implementation projects of EBM in the Gulf of California (GC):
one focused on shrimp fisheries and the other on artisanal fisheries, both funded
by The Packard Foundation. Using semi-structured interviews of key informants, I try
to understand how the idea of EBM for fisheries management emerged in the GC, how
is this concept understood in that region, and the challenges that this new management
scheme has faced in the Mexican context. I discuss that this idea has surged as a
response to the Mexican fisheries crises as well as the external influence from donors;
that it is a concept regarded to be too skewed towards science and to have an environmentalist
agenda; and how the challenges for EBM implementation in the Mexican context are mostly
related to governance and institutional arrangements.
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