Fisheries

What is the exploitation status of fisheries resources in the Gulf of California?

The periodic assessments on the health of fish stocks is important in order to design…

Parrotfish

Productivity and recovery of rocky reefs in the Gulf of California

Globally, the deterioration of reefs has been greatly increased by overexploitation of fish stocks (1)….

Ecological monitoring

20 years of ecological monitoring in the Gulf of California

The Long Term Ecological Monitoring Program (LTEMP) began in 1998 as a collaborative effort between…

Mangroves

Distant mangroves share similar fish communities, while neighbors can be different

Mangrove forests form complex and productive ecosystems at the edges of the tropical oceans, and…

Fisheries

Echosounder surveys reveal that small fish escape from the Gulf Corvina fishery

Every spring, adult Gulf Corvina (Cynoscion othonopterus) return to where they were born in the…

Coral Reef

Marine habitat distributions in the Gulf of California

The value of nature and its contribution to human well-being and development is being increasingly…

Ecosystem Dynamics

A description of El Niño/La Niña effects in the Gulf of California

The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular, periodic variation in the sea surface…

Bahia de Banderas

How many species and groups of invertebrates are in the Gulf of California reefs?

The fish communities in the reefs of the Gulf of California (GoC) have been studied…

Cabo Pulmo

Exploring diversity in Cabo Pulmo National Park through fish eggs and larvae

Genetic identification of fish eggs and larvae can be a useful tool to assess the…

Corvina

How many gulf curvinas have been caught?

Extraction levels in any fishery should never exceed the species’ capacity to recover (never catch…

Cabo Pulmo

Recovering fishery resources in the Gulf of California

Ocean reefs are a source of food and income for many coastal communities that extract…

Fisheries

Fisheries driving development in Punta Abreojos, Mexico

Punta Abreojos is one of the most important fishing communities in terms of marine resource…

Fisheries

The lunar cycle and the fisheries of the Upper Gulf of California

In the Upper Gulf of California large tidal fluctuations, as well as migration and spawning…

Mangroves

Mangroves are snapper generators

Juvenile yellow snapper (Lutjanus argentiventris) depend on estuary habitats in their first year of life….

Yellow Snapper

How distance between mangroves and reefs could affect snapper populations

Several species of snappers are dependent on mangrove forests during their first year of life…

Fisheries

Spatial Distribution of Potential Fishing Effort in the Gulf of California, Mexico

The Gulf of California is well known for being one of the world’s top marine…

Mangroves

Sampling mangrove peat in the Southern Gulf of California

Mangrove forests, tropical coastal wetland ecosystems, are severely threatened by human activities,1 on local scales…

Reefs

Richness, density and biomass as measures of health

There is a huge difference between the rocky reefs in the Gulf of California that…

Reefs

Mexico’s reefs and underwater data

For the last 15 years GCMP scientists have been surveying many of the rocky reefs…

Ecological monitoring

Health index

The size of the different species present in a community is well known to be…

Fisheries

Spatial structure of commercial marine fisheries in NW Mexico

Marine fisheries in NW Mexico are currently managed as a single group. Our 2011 analysis…

Fisheries

Who’s eating who?

The characteristics of an ecosystem are often best understood by the feeding relationships of the…

Trackers

Fishing vessel movement: recording Mexico’s fishermen

Collecting spatial information on the movement of fishing vessels and the deployment of fishing gear…