UNAM
Revista Digital Universitaria
Revista Digital Universitaria ISSN: 1607 - 6079 | Publicación mensual | 1 de octubre de 2014 vol.15, No.10

ABSTRACT

Perspectives of marine fish farming in the South Pacific of Mexico



Sergio Escárcega Rodríguez


The increased supply of food for human consumption is a pressing need in Mexico under the expected future population growth and the requirements that arise in tandem to generate foreign exchange, creating new sources of employment and regional development; well as reducing pressure on fisheries resources, particularly in coastal areas.

In this context, marine fish farming on a large scale is a productive aspect that should be taken forward in the country, given the opportunities that they have to do. In this regard, there are precise public policy in Mexico for production development and an important platform for research, innovation and technological development. It also has different euryhaline marine fish species of high commercial and food value in the South Pacific region of Mexico with high attributes and potential for their use in different environments and cropping intensities, and a continuous supply of industrial inputs for feed formulation used to feed the organisms throughout the production cycle, in of which include the meal and fish oil for its high nutritional value.

In this regard, the importance of upwelling zones in the oceans as areas of high productivity and continuous supply of raw materials for food processing from small pelagic fish such as sardine and anchovy were analyzed, current trends in the use inputs for aquaculture feed formulation in the global context, the rationale for the importance of euryhaline species choice as identifying those that are emerging in the region as the largest margin of eligibility for their greatest attributes aquaculture in order to focus the research to develop the technology of its cultivation on a commercial scale. Species such as Pacific tight bass (Centropomus nigrescens), the Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara), Pacific red snapper (Lutjanus peru), pompano (Trachinotus kennedyi) and corvina (Cynoscion xanthulus) are outlined in this aspect, as some examples of the species of greatest demand and price in the largest seafood market in Mexico, "La Nueva Viga," in Mexico City, D.F., one of the most populated cities in the world.

Keywords: Upwelling, marine fish culture, euryhaline fish, food security, regional development