Evaluación de impacto ambiental de las actividades antropogénicas por pescadores artesanales en el Puerto Pitahaya y planteamiento de políticas ambientales

Abstract

Artisanal fishing is one of the oldest activities carried out by the human being, either for its survival or for its commercialization, with the passage of time this work was expanding excessively causing pollution of coastal marine areas, as in the case of Ecuador, a country which is quintessential fishing thanks to its geographical location, giving rise to multiple ports in its different provinces such as the case of Puerto Pitahaya, which is located in the province of El Oro, Arenillas canton, place where small and medium scale artisanal fishing takes place. In this port the environmental impact assessment was carried out, using a descriptive analytical approach and quantitative qualitative method of the Conesa Matrix in addition to the proposal of Granero Castro, he informed us of one of the main impacts generated to the ecosystem, it is abandonment of nets which at the time of the extraction of the fish become entangled in the seabed, at which time they are cut and abandoned in the sea causing it to continue entangling bentopelagic fish and the slow degradation of its toxic composition causes contamination of the The sea also forms bad fishing practices at the time of fish handling and lack of specialized equipment for this activity causes effects on the fish's organism. Through the analysis of these results, environmental policies were presented that promote the sustainability of marine resources.