Juan Acosta-Jimeno

Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías - Universidad Veracruzana

Hidalgo 617 Col. Río Jamapa, Boca del Río, Ver. 94290, México.
phone: +51 (229) 956 7070; e-mail: juanacostaj@gmail.com

SOME FINFISH SPECIES WITH POTENTIAL FOR OFFSHORE

Tampico-Madero
AQUACULTURE IN VERACRUZ
Pánuco river
TAMPICO ZONE (TYPE B)
COMMON SCIENTIFIC
COMMON NAME: SCIENTIFIC NAME: DISTRIBUTION:
To Cd. Valles, SLP Sheephead Archosargus Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada, Northern
probatocephalus Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Absent in Bermuda,
Pueblo Viejo Sheepshead, sargo
Sargo Archosargus probatcephalus
Bahamas, West Indias and Grenada
lagoon

Bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus Thunnus thynnus

ZONE OF HIGH POTENTIAL (TYPE C) Bluefin tuna,
Atún aleta azul
Atún aleta azul
Western Atlantic: Canada, Gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to
Venezuela and Brazil.

Tamiahua Dolphin fish, mahi-mahi

Dorado Coryphaena hippurus Coryphaena hippurus
Atlantic, Indian and Pacific
lagoon Dolphin fish,
Dorado
Oceans: Tropical and sub-
Mahi-mahi tropical. Highly migratory

Cobia Rachycentron canadum

Cobia, esmedregal, Rachycentron canadum
Worldwide in tropical and sub-tropical

TAMIAHUA ZONE (TYPE A) bacalao

Esmedregal, bacalao waters, except on Eastern Pacific

Tamiahua
All the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and
Red snapper Lutjanus campechanus
Red snapper
Huachinango
Lutjanus campechanus
East Coast of th USA up to
Huachinango Massachussets, even when rare

TUXPAM ZONE (TYPE A) North of the Carolinas

Jack, crevalle Caranx hippos Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada

Tuxpam Jack, crevelle
Jurel Caranx hippos
and Northern Gulf of Mexico to Uruguay,
Tuxpam river including las Greater Antilles. Absent in
Jurel Minor Antilles
CAZONES ZONE (TYPE B)
Permit, pompano
Trachinotus falcatus
Permit, pompano Trachinotus falcatus
Western Atlantic: Massachussets
Pámpano to SE Brazil, including Bahamas
Cazones Pámpano and West Indies

Snook Centropomus West Atlantic: South of Florida, SE coasts of

Poza Rica Airport
Tecolutla
TECOLUTLA ZONE (TYPE A) Snook, robaloundecimalis
Robalo Centropomus undecimalis
the Gulf of Mexico. central Caribbean coasts and
Southamerica down to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and North
(non-coastal municipality) to Texas and North Carolina, USA.
Gutiérrez Zamora
Greater amberjack Seriola dumerili
Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Nova Scotia,

To Pachuca, Hidalgo
NAUTLA ZONE (TYPE A) Greater amberjack
Seriola dumerili
Coronado, medregal
Coronado, medregal Canada to Brazil; also from the Gulf of
Mexico and Caribbean
Images from the website of "Crystal River Back Country"
Data primarily from Fishbase
LEGEND Nautla

Coastal municipalities of Veracruz

Non coastal municipalities of Veracruz

Exclusion areas due to river plume influence To Teziutlán,

Puebla
ZONE OF HIGH FUTURE
Exclusion area due to MPA´s.
POTENTIAL (TYPE C)
Exclusion areas of strategic activities
XALAPA Úrsulo Galván
Zones with depth from 20 to 60 meter
To Puebla
VERACRUZ ZONE (TYPE B)
Areas with near road or port infrastructure La Antigua

Veracruz
Best suited areas for offshore aquaculture implementation
Boca del Río
Major seaport Antón Lizardo ALVARADO ZONE (TYPE B)
Airport
Oil rig To Puebla
BALZAPOTE ZONE (TYPE A)
Alvarado
Highway, 4 lanes Alvarado COATZACOALCOS AND AGUA DULCE
lagoon system Balzapote
Federal road ZONE (TYPE B)
State road Sontecomapan
Sontecomapan
lagoon

Jicacal Tonalá To Cárdenas, Tabasco

Ostión
lagoon
To Tuxtepec, Oaxaca Coatzacoalcos

LOCATION OF THE STATE OF VERACRUZ, MEXICO

LAMBERT CONICAL CONFORMAL PROJECTION FOR NORTH AMERICA

NORTH AMERICAN DATUM 1927 (NAD-27)
CLARKE SPHEROID, 1866

GULF OF MEXICO

0 50 100
Scale in Kilometers
To Salina Cruz, Oaxaca
Parallels True to Scale: 29.5° and 45.5° PACIFIC OCEAN

115° W 110° W 105° W 100° W 95° W 90° W

INTRODUCTION RESULTS
Mexico's offshore mariculture is still an activity in its development phase. Table 1 shows the criteria applied in the analysis. Some of them turned
Veracruz continental platform offers all the requirements for the develo- out to be limiting and some did not. Mainly those regarding Operational ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project was funded by the Government of the State of Veracruz.
pement of tropical offshore mariculture. This work sets the areas that aspects were limiting, and most of the Technical and Environmental we- The publication of this work was done as a student in the Doctorate
Program of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries (ICIMAP)
can and cannot be used, based on several selection criteria. re not. of the Veracruz University, and was possible due to a grant awarded
by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Me-
Table 2 shows the 4 resulting types of zones classified by its utility in off- xico.
I specially thank Juan Carlos Zamorano (Government of the State
Material and Methods shore mariculture. Most of the surface that meet both Technical and En- of Veracruz), for the facilities granted during this project, and also Dr.
Javier Bello and Dr. Yuri Okolodkov (ICIMAP) for their valuable help
A set of several qualitative and cuantitative selection criteria adapted from vironmental criteria is still unavailable due to Operational -mainly infras- and comments. I also thank Alfredo Simonin, Aura Torres and Jessica
Mendez for their support in the field and in gathering and digitizing
literature were applied using GIS analysis. The criteria were of Technical, tructure shortcomings- criteria. In conclusion there's plenty of area for most of the geodata.

Environmental and Operational nature. present (1,240 sq. km) and future (2,044 sq. km) development.