{"id":9912,"date":"2018-05-14T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2018-05-12T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T19:22:08","slug":"costa-rica-names-new-head-of-fisheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/2018\/05\/14\/costa-rica-names-new-head-of-fisheries\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica names new head of fisheries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The loss of a great scientist is turning into a big win for Costa Rica. President Carlos Alvarado took office May 8, 2018, and at 38 years old is the country\u2019s youngest president ever. One of his many appointments made in his progressive new government was appointing Moises Mug as head of INCOPESCA, the body that governs all fisheries in the country. Mug previously served as director of science for FECOP, a sport fishing advocacy and conservation group in this Central American nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mug is a fisheries biologist with 32 years of professional experience in sustainable fisheries, and ocean conservation and development. His experience includes high-level policy work and advice, strategic planning and implementation of complex fishery programs, teaching\u00a0\u00a0and research. For the last 15 years, he has worked on an\u00a0international\u00a0level focusing on several aspects of oceanic fisheries including policy, governance, capacity building, markets and livelihoods, and sustainable finance. He holds a master\u2019s degree in Fisheries Science from Oregon State University in a joint program with The University of Washington. Other academic credits include Fulbright \u2013\u00a0LASPAU scholar (1990-1993)\u00a0and Marine Stewardship Council stakeholder\u00a0member (2015 to present). He grew up in Limon, where he worked in his father\u2019s store and surf cast for snook in his free time as a youngster.<\/p>\n

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He is best known for his recent research working on the \u201cTuna Decree\u201d created in 2014, which protects a total of over 200,000 square kilometers of territorial waters from tuna purse seine operations.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This action moved tuna boats out 45 miles from the coast to eliminate conflicts with Costa Rican commercial and sport-fishing fleets. In 2017 his research convinced the government to reduce tuna licenses issued to foreign fleets from 43 to 13. According to observer on-board catch records, this license reduction saved 25 metric tons of marlin by-catch as well as dorado, wahoo, sailfish, turtles, sharks and marine mammals.<\/p>\n

Mug has also been spearheading joint efforts with INA (Costa Rica\u2019s technical institute), INCOPESCA and FECOP, supplying technical and scientific support for the \u201cgreenstick\u201d project, a targeted method of fishing tuna with almost zero bycatch. Henry Marin, FECOP\u2019s project manager,\u00a0offered this assessment about Mug\u2019s appointment.\u00a0\u201cOne thing is for certain. INCOPESCA now has a leader who truly understands fisheries management, understands the value of sport fishing to Costa Rica and the number jobs it supplies to Costa Ricans, plus the contribution sport fishing has on tourism as well as the need to properly manage marine resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information:\u00a0www.fishcostarica.org<\/a> or info@fecop.org<\/a>.
\nSource: www.thefishingwire.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The loss of a great scientist is turning into a big win for Costa Rica. President Carlos Alvarado took office May 8, 2018, and at 38 years old is the country\u2019s youngest president ever. One of his many appointments made in his progressive new government was appointing Moises Mug as head of INCOPESCA, the body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[118,2806,2150,536,1728],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-costa","tag-moises","tag-mug","tag-rica","tag-sportfishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t