Caribe Mexicano - Zona de Amortiguamiento - Sustainable Use of Ecosystems - Tiburones y Rayas - Bolas

This area is protected to preserve a nutrient-rich marine area that attracts various marine species, including the white trevally (Caranx latus), tarpon (Megalops atlanticus), pompano (Trachinotus falcatus), bonito (Sarda sarda), red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus), mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis), bonefish (Albula vulpes), as well as bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas), blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus), silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis), and occasionally, tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier). The area, characterized by slab and sand bottoms with rocky formations that serve as refuge, is ideal for low-impact activities such as shark diving. The conservation measures applied seek to preserve this unique habitat, limiting harmful interactions, pollution, and alteration of marine ecosystems, ensuring the protection of biodiversity and the environmental services it provides.

Species of Concern: horse-eye jack, atlantic tarpon, permit, atlantic bonito, northern red snapper, mutton snapper, bonefish, bull shark, blacktip shark, silky shark

Restricciones

The following is prohibited:
1. Alter or destroy by any means or action feeding sites, nesting, refuge or reproduction of wild species.
2. Free diving.
3. Capture, manipulate, remove, extract, retain or appropriate wildlife, except for development fishing, fishing commercial, recreational-sport fishing, scientific research and collection and environment monitoring.
4. Infrastructure construction, except for the installation of artificial habitats.
5. Sand extraction.
6. Introduce exotic species, including invasives.
7. Commercial shark and ray fishing.
8. Perform any cleaning activity and bilge depletion of boats.
9. Remove the seabed or generate the sediment suspension, except for habitat placement and installation artificial.
10. Use explosives or any other substance that may cause some alteration to the ecosystems.
11. Use lamps or any other source of direct light for observation of wildlife species, except for collection scientific and environmental monitoring.
12. Pour or unload any type of organic waste, solid waste or liquids or any other type of pollutant, to the marine natural environment.

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The following is allowed:
1. Scientific collection of wildlife specimens.
2. Placement and installation of artificial habitats.
3. Environmental education.
4. Filming, photography activities, image or sound capture.
5. Scientific research.
6. Environment monitoring.
7. Navigation.
8. Commercial fishing, except for sharks and rays.
9. Sports-recreational fishing in capture and release mode.
10. Development fishing.
11. Low impact environmental tourism, exclusively:
-SCUBA diving;
-Observation of wildlife, exclusively sharks and rays.