Regional Artisanal Fishing and Aquaculture Festival, Sonora 2022
Regional Artisanal Fishing and Aquaculture Festival, Sonora 2022 The Artisanal Fishing and Aquaculture Festival Sonora 2022 (FRPAAS 2022), aimed to focus attention and recognize the work of fishers and aquaculturists in Sonora and the northern Gulf of California for their contribution to the supply of...
CEDO’s School of the Sea starts certifying the first cohort of fishermen and fisherwomen!
By: Paloma A. Valdivia Jiménez, Education and Liaison Manager, CEDO | Cover photo: CEDO Archive CONOCER Network logo In May 2021, the Intercultural Center for the Study of Desert and Oceans (CEDO) was accredited as a Competency Certification and Evaluation Entity (ECE) before the Mexican National Council for Standardization and...
Monitoring of bycatch in the green crab fishery in the Puerto Peñasco to Puerto Lobos Biological Corridor, Sonora, Mexico Case study on quantifying food loss and waste
By: CEDO Intercultural. . ORGANIZATION CEDO 41 years logo The Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) combines vision, leadership, knowledge and experience with a view to fostering dynamic communities and resilient ecosystems. The organization has been working in the northern Gulf...
A Little History and Challenges of Shark Fishing on the Mexican Pacific Coast
By: Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Principal Researcher, Department of Biological Oceanography, CICESE. Since the mid-1970s, Mexico has been a world leading shark catcher. But the history of this cartilaginous fish fishery begins almost 90 years before that date, when the first shark fins were exported to China...
The Fusion of Ingredients: Sonora, a State with great gastronomic wealth
By: Neftalí Ponce Hernández, Chef and owner of A la Burguer con el Chef, Executive Chef at Vidanta Puerto Peñasco. Today we address a small portion of the wide and rich gastronomy of a Municipality such as Puerto Peñasco, which shelters us and gives us...
Fishing – A Fascinating Profession
By: M.S. René Loaiza, Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Manager, CEDO Fishing represents the livelihood and income for approximately 12 million people around the world. Around 90% of these people fish in small boats. The Gulf of California in Mexico is a provider of food and...
Where the Desert Meets the Sea—A Place of Extremes
By: Efraín Wong, Leonor López H., Ángeles Sánchez C., René Loaiza V. Editor: Socorro González B. The northern Gulf of California is an eco-region limited to the south by the Tiburon and Ángel de la Guarda islands, and to the north by the Colorado River...
School of the Sea
By: Paloma A. Valdivia-Jiménez, CEDO Education, Communication, and Outreach Manager In the framework of celebrations for Education Day (January 24) and Environmental Education Day (January 26) in Mexico, we are launching one of the most innovative educational projects of the Intercultural Center for the Study...
Consumption as a Tool for Sustainability
By: Nélida Barajas Acosta, Executive Director, CEDO Intercultural Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna, Associate Researcher, CEDO Intercultural Sarah Mesnick, NOAA Researcher Miguel Ángel Cisneros Mata, INAPESCA Researcher. The northern Gulf of California, recognized for its biological and cultural diversity, was declared a World Heritage Site[1]. Petroglyphs from...
Pesca ribereña Foto: Elizabeth Ruiz/Cuartoscuro
A Few Thoughts on the Importance of Fishing and Aquaculture in Sonora
By: Dr. Miguel Ángel Cisneros Mata | Researcher at National Institute of Fishing and Aquaculture Three important elements converged in 2020: 1) The 25th anniversary of the publication of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (FAO 1995). 2) The mandate to achieve the key...
