Farming
Shrimp Farming, considered as Teacapan main industry, became the focus of Mexico’s export-oriented fishing activity because of the importance and economic value of the crustacean in the international --particularly US-- market. Sinaloa located in the north west of Mexico is one of the 5 most important states of the Mexican pacific coast due to the shrimp farms and the capture of shrimp in the litorals. Teacapan have developed shrimp aquaculture.

Sinaloa is currently the state with the largest number of shrimp farms and the highest production levels of cultivated shrimp and where environmental problems associated with the industry’s development are most prominent. The rapid proliferation in the number of shrimp farms is affecting the coastal ecosystems and the rural communities that depend on the resources provided by these ecosystems.

 


Despite existing regulations, there is a consensus that the aquaculture industry is transforming the coastal ecosystems of Sinaloa in a way that is affecting the livelihood and quality of life for residents of the many rural coastal communities.

The coastal lagoons and estuaries that characterize Teacapan contain a diversity of habitats including mangrove forests, salt-marshes, inter-tidal pools, swamps, freshwater inner lagoons, and brackish and seawater systems. A key environmental concern is the impact of shrimp farm construction on ecosystems. This issue is

most prominent in the southern region of the state of Sinaloa which is of course Teacapan, where a single lagoon system can contain many shrimp farms. During the rainy season, the region’s lagoons are habitats and nurseries for postlarvae and a variety of fishery resources, which form the basis of the commercial fishing activity and are also exploited by the rural coastal communities as common property. When these lagoons dry up with the end of the rains, they have traditionally been mined for salt both by individuals gathering it for home consumption as well as by some cooperatives.

Vegetable farming is also spectacular due to the great soil in the valley and the water surrounding with lagoons, swamps and rivers make it perfect to grow all kind of vegies as cucumbers, pepper, tomatoes, onion, carrot and fruits as Papaya, banana, mango, coconut, etc.