Aquaculture criteria for the Mexican Central Pacific region by multicriteria analysis

Abstract

The determination of aquaculture criteria indicated for the development of the activity allows identifying the inherent capacities of the sites to be used for this purpose. In this study the hierarchical analysis process was used in order to evaluate the relative importance of the criteria defined based on the opinion of 12 experts on the subject. The group determined as main criteria type of water, temperature, quality of the organisms, cultivation system, soil texture, level of technology and efficiency in administration. The results indicate that the criteria with greater importance were water with 0.38 of weight, temperature with 0.20 and quality of the organisms with 0.19. Implementation of the hierarchical analysis process technique proved to be useful for the construction of a global efficiency index for aquaculture activity, based on expert knowledge.