No take zones Alliance
Last month our country director participated in
a meeting with a new alliance that has been formed in Quintana Roo. Alianza
Kanan Kay is an initiative that has as an objective to join forces between the
main organizations working with the fisheries around Quintana Roo to establish
an efective network of no take zones and to try to bring back the old fishing
arts. The name Kanan Kay comes from the Mayan "look after the fish". The Alliance is formed by 33 diferent
organizations (government, fishing cooperatives, NGOs, national and
international) and GVI is part of them.
The no take zones are dedicated to the natural
reproduction of the marine species with the goal of recovering the fisheries
and the marine ecosystems. They must protect critic habitats, specially the
reproduction and recruitment zones. Recent studies show that when there is a
lack of fishing activities on these areas, the marine life can restore and
eventually this zones will be the source of fish for the non protected areas. The goal is to protect 20% of the coast of
Quintana Roo for 2015, with this, the Network of not take zones will be an
example worlwide of marine resources management. The workshop was done to create a map of all
the needs and capacities amongst the members of the Alliance, to start
organizing and implementing action points.
We will keep posting news of the work that the
Alianza is doing. At the moment they have achieved a lot by working with the
main fishing cooperatives in the state to establish some of the no take zones,
it is just starting in some places and it has been successful in some other
like Puerto Morelos where the fishermen are already trained to monitor those no
take zones to assess the health of the reef. This is something that will be
happening in the rest of the no take zones.
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