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This is a picture showing the number of boats
working off Kino Bay fishing grounds. Kino Bay is governed under an open
access regime. Our boat counts regularly yielded 70+ boats, a symptom of
their inability to control access to other fishers. As a result of the open
access regime, their sea pen shell fishery (sea pen shells =a sessile
mollusk that lives buried in the sand) has been overexploited. In this
context, overexploitation is measured by fishers’ inability to sustain
constant harvesting of sea pen shells year-round before they become too
scarce and small in size. In contrast, the Seri are able to sustain their
fishery year-round.
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