Overview
Prospective FIPs intend to meet the requirements for active FIPs within one year. These projects are posted on FisheryProgress to help users identify opportunities to support developing FIPs and prevent the start of duplicate FIPs. Prospective FIPs are not yet demonstrating progress toward sustainability.
Porto Jaibo and CeDePesca are developing a Fisheries Improvement Project for the brown shrimp fishery operated with bottom trawls in the mexican Gulf of Mexico. During the Development Stage, CeDePesca will conduct a MSC pre-assessment, provide improvement recommendations and develop a work plan for key issues.
Brown shrimp Farfantepenaeus aztecus fishery is located in front of Veracruz and Tamaulipas waters and is the most important shrimp fishery considering economical and social issues in the mexican Gulf of Mexico. It is a sequencial fishery with catches inside coastal lagoons and in high seas. The offshore brown shrimp fishery occurs in waters under federal jurisdiction from the border with the United States Mexicans to the coast of Tabasco from 15 miles to 60 fathoms. 87% of industrial vessels are based on Tamaulipas.
Porto Jaibo and CeDePesca are developing a Fisheries Improvement Project for the brown shrimp fishery operated with bottom trawls in the mexican Gulf of Mexico. During the Development Stage, CeDePesca will conduct a MSC pre-assessment, provide improvement recommendations and develop a work plan for key issues.