Abstract

Mexico occupies the seventeenth place between the 30 main seafood producing countries with a capture average of 1,3 million tons annually, due to the effort of fishermen, industrialists, and diverse agents who affect the activity. Part of this effort is generated in Quintana Roo, where the fishing traditionally has been oriented to the capture of species of high commercial value such as lobster, shrimp and conch. Nevertheless, due to the increasing demand in food production, landings of less valued species have not kept pace with demand along the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico. In recent years increasing population and an explosion in tourism has resulted in intensified fishing effort and anincrease in the number of independent social and fishing organizations. Within the national context, in the matter of production, Quintana Roo is located in the place number 20 contributing the 0,37% of the total of the production generated in the country. Although, within the states with the coast, in this line, its representativeness is not so important, if it is it in his contribution in the global value of the production since in our commercial waters they operate fisheries of great economic importance.

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