The Kanan Kay Alliance (AKK, Spanish acronym) is an intersectoral initiative for sustainable fisheries management and marine conservation in the Yucatan Peninsula. The AKK has promoted the decree of 17 fishing refuge zones, which implies the protection of more than eighteen thousand marine hectares. 40 active members, which include fishing and tourism cooperatives and two organized groups of fishermen, work to restore small-scale fisheries and conserve habitat; they have managed to increase approximately 52% of the biomass of species of commercial interest in the fishing refuge areas.
