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Gulf of Mexico
Large Marine Ecosystem
Porfirio Álvarez-Torres
Project Coordinator

STAP GEF INTERNATIONAL WATERS 2ND EXPERT

CONSULTATION ON HYPOXIA AND NUTRIENT REDUCTION
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IN THE COASTAL ZONE
 GoM‐LME Project Components
1. Transboundary Diagnostic 2. Strategic Action Programme
Analysis (TDA) (SAP)
Productivity Pollution Reduction and Control
Fish Stocks- Fisheries Living Marine Resources
Monitoring & Ecosystem Health
Ecosystem Conservation
Governance
Socioeconomics Education and Outreach
Climate Change
and Sea Level Rise
National Action Programme
(NAP)

3. Pilot Projects
5. Coordination
Joint Assesment and Monitoring of
4. Monitoring & Coastal Conditions in the GoM

Evaluation Enhacing Shrimp Production through

Ecosystem Based Management
(Indicators)
Enhanced Natural Habitat Conservation
Joint Assessment in the Coastal and Marine Areas of the
Based  on country in‐kind contributions GoM LME
NOAA  & SEMARNAT
 Strategies and actions for the reduction and control of nutrient over‐enrichment, 
HABs and for the elimination of dead zones developed

* Regional Plans of Action or programs (eg. RPA‐YUCATAN) developed by 
Mexico as a major contribution to reduce land based sources of pollution 
into the GoM LME
* Strategic Partnerships between GoM LME institutions responsible for 
integrated management of the major GoM river basins, as well as the main 
coastal cities developed
* Stocktaking of the Papaloapan watershed Commission (and other relevant 
examples) to define opportunities for replication in other GoM river basins 
in order to provide for strong interlinkages between watershed 
management authorities and coastal managers
* Strategies for harmonizing legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks 
on agricultural practices at LME wide levels developed, building upon the 
Gulf of Mexico Governors Alliance
 Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen 
Contributions (Ton N/y), NEWS 
DIN Prediction Model for the Gulf of 
Mexico
The UNEP Large Marine Ecosystem Report, 2009

Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen 
Contributions Sources (Ton N/y), 
NEWS DIN Prediction Model for the Gulf 
of Mexico
The UNEP Large Marine Ecosystem Report, 2009
 Identification of HABs

FAN 

clorofila a Concentration
MODIS/Aqua Average Composition 2002‐2009  

Correlación de datos imágenes de satélite vs datos in situ
“HABs Monitoring”

HBSOS (Harmful Algal Blooms

Observing System)
IOC-UNESCO (Intergoverment
Oceanographic Comision on
Harmful Algal Bloom Programme)

Joint effort between Mex US to create standardize

HABIOS
Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico

SAP
IMPLEMENTATION
 Hypoxia in Campeche Sound and the 
Grijalva‐Usumacinta River Basin

Results from BAHIAS Cruise, june 2008, 
RV Antea IRD, Program JEST
Grijalva-Usumacinta
River Basin
Advise & Decision Oceans
Making Process Binational Commission
Commission

Monitoring and Observing Systems

Two Ocean Observing Systems

Mexico US
Mexico France
Thank you!