Responsible fishing and gathering

Responsible Fisheries and Artisan Collection

In this terminology, refers to small craft scale with sophisticated tools, and applies to a fishing or collecting by people with low income. Responsible means taking to the sea without harming the resource may still be more. Ie, head is a synonym for sustainable puts the responsibility in the hands of those who fished or collected.

Fishing or collecting shellfish and other animals responsibly fund, has been called a form of mariculture, especially when, in addition to arts practice that not only prey resources as excessive, or damage beyond its ability to recover is promotes the growth and maintenance of the resource that is caught or harvested. The latter sees the release of juveniles and seed to promote presence of the desired species, or the arrangement of juvenile mollusks to grow naturally in a better position.

The model of responsible fishing which is being promoted was born on the island of Chira in the Gulf of Nicoya, in the community of Palito. There, a group of fishermen, has a demarcated area of the coast about 4 miles long by one to two kilometers in width and have ensured a high cost for those who do not fish there, or even less with trammel fishing drag. Fishing in this area is just hook a fish no minimum size for small fish, so no other individual in line. In this way, each fish is not only a minimum size of the area so they managed to provide adequate sustenance for 12 fishermen. The most common fish croaker.

Soon we will talk more about this strategy.