Determinación del impacto que ocasiona el uso público en los sitios de descanso destinados a la modalidad de pesca vivencial en las áreas protegidas de Galápagos: caso de estudio Isla Santa Cruz

Abstract

The present investigation is aimed to determine the impact about the public use of resting places for vivencial fishing in protected Galapagos areas: study case, Santa Cruz island; by using techniques such as field trip and documental research, exploratory, descriptive and analytic. This investigation has four components: evaluation, determination of the micro-zoning, managing proposal development and monitoring. The evaluation of touristic resources determined that 60% of the ten resting places got hierarchy IV, and 40% got hierarchy III by becoming in meaningful places. The results emitted by Tourist Potential Index (TPI) to the resting places show that the resources overcome 0,72 of TPI that means these places have good conditions to be taken advantages in tourism and they own beauty that can be interpreted. In order to determine the profile of the tourism, supply was characterized by means of surveys to national and international touristic visiting these areas. It was gotten that 71% of people are willing to carry out vivencial fishing. An evaluation was applied to analyze the performance development which shows that it is good. The micro zoning and managing proposals were carried for seven places; six of them belong to (Public Use Zoning) PUZ-Managed-Intensive and one place belong to the PUZ-Intensive-Natural by using the same resources according to the regulations. Monitoring carried out by the measurement of biophysical, social and managing indicators show that this activity of vivencial fishing does not change and cause negative impacts in the ecosystems belonging to Galapagos.