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Marine and Coastal Monitoring

The Marine and Coastal Monitoring project promotes the monitoring of marine protected areas and their natural resources to facilitate decision-making and conservation of Mexican seas. In collaboration with National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO, Spanish acronym), in 2022 the first distribution map of the red mangrove in the North Pacific was concluded, which will allow the establishment of a baseline to identify the effects of climatic variations in the region on this species. In addition, the document Diagnosis of Aquaculture in Mexico, published by Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FMCN, Spanish acronym), which includes lines of action to guide this practice towards sustainability, won second place in the Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Award 2020-2022 in the category of Fisheries or Aquaculture Research.

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