Pre-Assessment Report of the Marine Finfish Fishery Caught with Handlines in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
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Pre-assessment report of the marine finfish fishery caught with handlines in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico Prepared for: S.C.P.P. 29 de agosto. S.C.P.P. El Resbalón. S.C.P.P. El Mirador de la Manga. S.C.P.P. Pesquera La Manga Restaurante Doña Rosita. C.P.P. Pesquera Los Sazanes. S.C.P.P. Francisco Flores. S.C.P.P. Alianza de Pescadores de Guaymas. S.C.P.P. Las Dallanas. S.C.P.P. Pescadores de la Cantera. Prepared by: Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A. C. Francisco Javier Fernández Rivera Melo, Alesa Flores Guzmán & José Francisco Chávez Reviewed by Mónica Valle-Esquivel, Jodi Bostrom, Erin Wilson Validated by MRAG Americas April 2020 Report by Comunidad y Biodiversidad, AC Validated by (CAB) MRAG Americas Inc. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera 29 de agosto. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera El Resbalón. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera El Mirador de la Manga. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera La Manga Restaurante Doña Rosita. Fishery client Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Los Sazanes. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Francisco Flores. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Alianza de Pescadores de Guaymas. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Las Dallanas. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Pescadores de la Cantera. Assessment Type Comprehensive pre-assessment Project code US2647_COBI_MX_PA_Validation Version 3.0 Francisco Javier Fernández Rivera Melo, Alesa Flores Guzmán & Prepared by Jose Francisco Chavez Mónica Valle-Esquivel, Jodi Bostrom, Erin Wilson (MRAG Reviewed by Americas) Approved by Amanda Stern-Pirlot Comunidad y Biodiversidad, A. C. Calle Isla del Peruano #215 Colonia Lomas de Miramar Guaymas, Sonora, México, CP 85448 Correo electrónico [email protected] (información) 2 1 Contents 1 Contents ..................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Tables index .............................................................................................................. 4 1.2 Figures index ............................................................................................................. 5 2 Glossary ..................................................................................................................... 7 3 Executive summary ...................................................................................................... 9 4 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 11 5 Report details ............................................................................................................ 11 5.1 Aims and constraints of the pre-assessment .......................................................... 11 5.2 Version details ......................................................................................................... 12 6 Unit(s) of Assessment ................................................................................................ 13 6.1 Unit(s) of Assessment ............................................................................................. 13 7 Traceability ............................................................................................................... 15 7.1 Traceability within the fishery .................................................................................. 15 8 Pre-assessment results .............................................................................................. 17 8.1 Pre-assessment results overview............................................................................ 17 8.1.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................... 17 8.1.2 Recommendations ........................................................................................................ 19 8.2 Summary of potential conditions by Principle ......................................................... 19 8.3 Summary of Performance Indicator level scores .................................................... 19 8.4 Principle 1 ................................................................................................................ 25 8.4.1 Principle 1 background ................................................................................................. 25 8.4.2 Catch profiles ................................................................................................................ 40 8.4.3 Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data ................................................................ 42 8.4.4 Principle 1 Performance Indicator scores and rationales ............................................. 44 8.5 Principle 2 ................................................................................................................ 55 8.5.1 Principle 2 background ................................................................................................. 55 8.5.2 Principle 2 Performance Indicator scores and rationales – delete if not applicable ..... 66 8.6 Principle 3 ................................................................................................................ 95 8.6.1 Principle 3 background ................................................................................................. 95 8.6.2 Principle 3 Performance Indicator scores and rationales – delete if not applicable ..... 98 8.7 List of references ................................................................................................... 110 Appendices ........................................................................................................................ 116 8.8 Assessment information ........................................................................................ 116 8.8.1 Small-scale fisheries ................................................................................................... 116 8.9 Evaluation processes and techniques ................................................................... 117 8.9.1 Site visits ..................................................................................................................... 117 8.9.2 Recommendations for stakeholder participation in full assessment........................... 118 8.10 Risk-Based Framework outputs ............................................................................ 120 8.10.1 Consequence Analysis (CA) ....................................................................................... 120 8.10.2 Productivity Susceptibility Analysis (PSA) .................................................................. 124 3 1.1 Tables index Table 1 – Unit(s) of Assessment (UoA) ................................................................................................ 14 Table 2 – Traceability within the fishery ............................................................................................... 16 Table 3 – Key to likely scoring level in Table 4 and P1, P2, and P3 performance indicators. ............. 17 Table 4 – Summary of Performance Indicator level scores.................................................................. 19 Table 5 – Summary of Performance Indicator level scores.................................................................. 19 Table 6. Northwest Mexico fishing offices ............................................................................................ 35 Table 7 – Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data – yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi (Valenciennes, 1833) ............................................................................................................... 42 Table 8 – Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data – Pacific red snapper, Lutjanus peru (Nichols & Murphy, 1922) ........................................................................................................ 42 Table 9 – Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data – goldspotted sand bass, Paralabrax auroguttatus (Walford, 1936) ................................................................................................... 43 Table 10 – Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data – ocean whitefish, Caulolatilus princeps (Jenyns, 1840) ......................................................................................................................... 43 Table 11 – Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and catch data – rooster hind, Hyporthodus acanthistius (Gilbert, 1892) .......................................................................................................................... 43 Table 13 – Reference points (RF) for the Pacific sardine in the Gulf of California. Table reproduced from the document sent by M. A. Martinez-Zavala, complemented with data from CRIP (2015) by Andraka et al. 2018. ................................................................................................ 56 Table 14 – Estimations of threat herring using hydroacoustic surveys (Alvarez et al. 2018)............... 57 Table 15 – Reference points for thread herring in the Gulf of California. Table produced from documents sent by M.A. Martinez-Zavala in 2014-2015 and data from Nevárez-Martinez et al. 2016 (Alvarez et al. 2018). .................................................................................................. 57 Table 16 – Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) and associated mean biomass of Gulf of California chub mackerel. Reproduced from Nevárez-Martínez et al. 2016 (Alvarez et al., 2018) ......... 59 Table