Management priorities for Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico |
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Authors: | R Michael Hastings David W Fischer |
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Institution: | (1) Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, UABC, Km 103 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, Ensenada, B.C., México |
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Abstract: | The current lack of a working resource management plan Magdalena Bay (southern Baja California, Mexico) has weakened attempts
to set priorities among resource users and has contributed to: reduced fish stocks, land and marine contamination, and declines
in the ecological integrity of the bay of 170 000 ha and its vast mangrove lagoon systems. The government agencies responsible
for maintaining ecological integrity and managing marine resource use have not been successful in addressing these problems
due to jurisdictional ambiguities, lack of community support, and lack of manpower for monitoring and enforcing policies.
A framework was designed by the authors to work toward an approach for balancing between community development and conserving
ecological integrity at the local level in the peripheral and central zones of the Magdalena Bay system. The goal of this
framework was to suggest a basis for setting management priorities that included the perceptions and preferences of stakeholder
groups with regard to direct threats to the environmental health of the study areas. To achieve this goal a crossdisciplinary
study of the central and peripheral zones was used to examine factors that influence current resource use and the environmental
state in these two regions of the bay system. Insights into the preferences and perceptions of stakeholder groups with regard
to management priorities were acquired using the key informant technique. The results revealed potential conflicts with regard
to preferred management priorities between stakeholder groups, as well as polarities within stakeholder groups themselves. |
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Keywords: | Community development Driving forces Ecological integrity Preference ranking Resource use conflict Stakeholder |
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