Abstract

Taganga is an indigenous community and fishing by tradition that during the last years has experienced a high growth in the number of inhabitants and tourists that arrive at the place due to the favorable climatic conditions and the amount of marine and terrestrial ecosystems that make it an ideal place to recreation and ecological tourism. The fishing population faces the task of creating projects for development purposes for its members, projects oriented to aquaculture that are usual-ly not viable due to maintenance costs, for this reason a small number of fishermen have seen the use of sport fishing as an alternative to face the scarcity of fish product of the deterioration of the coastal marine ecosystems and thus through the use of a hand line to take advantage of the fishing resources of species that can be captured far from the coast. In the communi-ty of Taganga the potential for sport fishing is developed based on evaluating favorable tools such as tourism, the state of the boats and the use of the territory. For this work, market strategies used by fishermen to develop their fishing activities were taken into account and thus evaluate the formality, willingness to pay and the registration of the commercial fish spe-cies of the catches in the fishing day. Within the research, a high impact and a good image regarding the proposal was found due to the fact that sport fishing emerges as an economically low impact activity for the marine environment, the exploitation of fishing resources and promotes good use towards good practices of fishing management in the fishing community.

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