Protected Marine Area in Costa Rica
The Costa Rican Fishing and Aquaculture Institute (INCOPESCA), has created a new protected marine area in order to assure a sustainable management of marine resources. The area where the new protected area is located is in Costa Rica’s Pacific near the Chira Island.
The community of Palito, Chira Island, received the document in which INCOPESCA has appointed the area between Paloma Island and the Colodarito sector as the protected marine area for responsible fishing.
In addition to protecting an important marine area in the Costa Rica Pacific Ocean, the protected area will allow the community of the Chira Island to improve their socioeconomic situation by obtaining control of this protected fishing area.
The president of INCOPESCA, Luis Dobles Ramirez, stated that the community of Chira will now have more control over their fishing practices as they will be able to learn about the species, their reproductive cycle and fishing seasons. In addition, the community of Chira will be able to control that the proper usage is given to the area.
Important commercial species reproduce in the newly protected area such as shrimp, corvina or white sea bass and oysters. Due to the area’s importance to the Chira community’s economy, only hook fishing is allowed in the area.
The Island of Chira has relied on fishing as its most important economic source over the past years. However, a group of local women took matters into their own hands to help the economy by creating an eco-friendly lodged named La Amistad.
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