Abstract

In Quintana Roo the recreational sport fishing of the slight type, well known as Fly Fishing, is an important activity due to the economic impact that it generates in the different sectors of the population. This activity is carried out with artificial flies and in shallow draft vessels of 18 feet of length and motors of 30 to 40 HP.\The species targeted by these activity are mainly: tarpon, sábalo, snook, robalo, permit, palometa and ladyfish, macabí, and other species that live in shallow depth and low salinity waters.\This type of fishing has the general characteristic to promote and to foment the liberation of the species that are captured, and as a consequence the sport fishermen protect the finfish from the lagoons and interior waters.\The state of Quintana Roo has approximately 900 km of the coastline and 373.097 hectares of coastal and continental lagoons, estuarine and bays in which this important sport practiced. The areas of greater participation are in the North and center of the state, mainly in Lázaro Cárdenas, Isla Mujeres, Benito Juárez, Cozumel y Solidaridad counties including the natural protected areas of Yum Balam, The National Park Isla Contoy, The Marine Park Arrecifes de Cozumel and the Reserve de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an. In Otón P. Blanco County we are in the process of establishing the National Park Arrecifes de Xcalak.\In the social sector fishing east deports isconsidered like an altemative of income in the economy of the fishermen. The SAGARP A has promoted the creation of 13 organizations with the legal frame of Cooperative societies of Tourist Services, with the objective of promoting the diversification of these activities by the benefit of tourist services and sport fishing. The main purpose is to involve local fishermen in its communities in order to avoid that they are displaced of the activity by foreign personnel, originating of other states.

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