Characterization of the productive articulation and tourism in the aquaculture farms of Toluca, State of Mexico, and Lake Tota in Boyacá, Colombia, first advance

Abstract

Global aquaculture has had exponential growth in recent decades (FAO,2020), mainly due to the decrease of wild fish populations in the global oceans and inland water bodies. That is why, according to the projection of specialists, by 2050 these species will have to be produced in controlled conditions, creating, improving, and developing farms that favor the consumption of this food locally, nationally, and internationally. For this reason, the productive articulation that is carried out between the different actors, Company, government, university, and associations of producers, (quadruple hélix), favors the interrelation between them, thus achieving social and economic benefits for the participants. Specifically, this research Project within the framework of the Pacific Alliance Treat aims to analyze the trout farms in Toluca, State of México, and the Tota lagoon in Boyacá, Colombia, to determine in a first approach the characterization of these groups and their relationship with tourism, to propose alternatives that promote greater involvement of the participants and increase collective benefits. This field research, which is carried out in the aforementioned localities, with a qualitative, non-experimental approach based on content analysis, collecting existing data in statistics and official documents of both countries, and with structured interviews conducted with aquaculture managers of the federal and local government and owners of aquaculture farms. The article is preliminary to know the operating conditions of the farms, and the link with Tourism, which will be linked to subsequent publications once the process of obtaining the actors of the productive groupings in México and Colombia is concluded.