The Yurupari - Malpelo National Integrated Management District: A landscape approach strategy to guarantee the conservation and sustainable use of fishery resources and associated ecosystem services.

The declaration of the Yuruparí - Malpelo IMD is primarily a strategy with a landscape approach for the conservation and management of the marine territory to ensure the provision of key ecosystem goods and services for survival, but it addresses tensions between various social sectors in favor of ensuring access to resources, benefit sharing and compliance with the responsibilities of the State. Despite the fact that the results in terms of maintaining or increasing the fishing stock and benefits to communities is not yet quantifiable - the declaration was made in 2018 - the inter-institutional arrangement and agreements with the fishing sector are of fundamental importance to advance in the construction of shared governance schemes that guarantee representativeness and equity, while strengthening national and regional efforts to sustain the fishing activity for the food security of the people, which is based on the fishing of small pelagic fish, tuna and the fishery known as white fishing, constituting a diversification alternative for shrimp fleets during closed fishing seasons. Likewise, Colombia's participation in the canning industry generates more than 5,000 direct jobs, which can be maintained thanks to greater management of the activity.