Arturo Hernández-Velasco

TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of women in Mexican fisheries based on governmental reports and programs, as well as five case studies from small-scale fishing communities, is examined, where women as cooperative leaders, collaborative decision-makers and entrepreneurs have become active promoters of good practices, including fishery and ecosystem restoration, environmental monitoring, and marine conservation.

TL;DR: Morphological and molecular data support the identification of S. filicinum as an important ecological engineer in the subtidal regions of northeastern Asian waters, as it forms marine forests that provide shelter for invertebrates and fishes and may replace native Sargassum species and change the composition of local marine floras.

TL;DR: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Mexican small-scale fisheries has been studied in this paper, where a total of 1493 interviews were conducted and a social media analysis that reviewed 9079 posts from April to December 2020 was performed.

TL;DR: In this article, a community-based monitoring model for marine ecosystems in Mexico has been proposed, which is intended to engage local fishers in data collection by fulfilling two principal objectives: (1) achieving science-based conservation and management decisions and (2) improving livelihoods through access to knowledge and temporary employment.

TL;DR: It is found that, overall, reserves have not yet achieved their stated goals of increasing the density of lobster and other benthic invertebrates, nor increasing lobster catches, and these reserves may provide a foundation for establishing additional, larger marine reserves needed to effectively conserve mobile species.