The accelerated growth of aquaculture in Mexico and Latin America in the last decade, strategies have been designed to guide the development of aquaculture production in a sustainable manner and in harmony with the environment. Mexico has developed the "National Aquaculture Ordering Program", mainly the Northeast region of the country. The objective of this program to develop and consolidate Mexico's aquaculture potential, through policies that allow the orderly and sustainable development of the activity.
The project aims to know the areas of aquaculture aptitude (high, medium or low) considering the biological, ecological, technological, environmental, economic, cultural and social aspects to have a competitive aquaculture sector in the national and international market. In the project the areas of aquaculture aptitude have been determined through biological, ecological, technological, environmental, economic, cultural and social aspects to have a competitive aquaculture sector in the national and international market. The Aquaculture Ordering includes steps of characterization, integrated diagnosis, model of aquaculture ordering and definition of areas with aquaculture aptitude, for each one of the states of the country. This program has been aligned with the environmental management program, which consists of the subprograms of: environmental training, flora and wildlife rescue and relocation, hazardous waste management. environmental compensation, restoration, bioremediation program (design of canal systems for wastewater discharge and design of water purification systems from shrimp farms). and until now only the regularization phase has been reached, which considers the permissions, licenses, and other authorizations within which it has been considered national registry of fishing, authorization of water use, change of land use, federal land maritime zone, among others within which are national registry of fishing, authorization of water use, change of land use, federal land maritime zone, among others. The strategy considered is shown in Figure 1 and consists of seven phases of this project.