Abstract

The commercial fishing of sea in the Yucatan Peninsula cucumber began starting in 2013. These privileges are subject to the fisheries 2012 National Charter, which establishes the resource management and the regulatory measures of mini-mum size. The monitoring and control of the fishing quotas of the sea on the coasts of Yucatán cucumber is made through processed weight to live weight conversion, based on the studies conducted by the National Fisheries Institute (INAPESCA). However, these conversion factors used only processed weight loss and such a subjective way conversion factors, it could apply which can generate differences with the producers, because there is not a standardized method. So, the present study carried out in the laboratory of exploitation of marine resources of the technological Institute of Mérida, with sea cucumbers Isostichopus badionotus aims get conversion factors and yield of cucumber in a standardized process of dehydration. A cooperative sea cucumber specimens were obtained. The stages of the process of dehydration were: first cooking and salted. It was performed in triplicate, then a material balance for each stage, and the average yield of sea cucumber was: 16. 67 ± 0.74%, corresponding to a conversion factor of 6.0. This conversion factor obtained for this study serve to validate processing to live weight, weight conversion resulting in better monitoring and control of quotas allocated to fishermen, favouring a responsible and sustainable fishing.

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