Pronatura Noroeste and the Centro Regional de Investigación Pesquera (CRIP) – Unidad La Paz, organized last May in the municipality of Loreto, Baja Califonia Sur, the workshop “Presentation of the Almeja Chocolata Fishery Management Plan,” to carry out a consultation and participatory planning on this project, with the participation of authorities, members of the sector and civil society organizations.

CRIP La Paz presented the analysis of the population status of the resource, the behavior of production by zones and clam banks, the results of the reproductive cycle study and the condition factor (yield in weight of the organism), recommendations for a proposal for temporary reproductive closure and the corroboration of the minimum legal catch size. In addition, a scheme of fishing zones was proposed to group the economic units according to the list of commercial fishing permits in force.

As a result of the process of Consultation and Participatory Planning that began in 2013, this workshop concluded a consensus proposal for a Fisheries Management Plan, which will be submitted to the fisheries authorities for authorization and publication in the Official Journal of the Federation, and thus have and implement a public policy instrument to ensure the sustainable use of the resource.