OUR WORK
Conservation
México Azul promotes marine conservation projects in partnership with specialized organizations, combining science, ecological restoration, and community participation. We are currently working on two key areas: artificial reefs and regenerative macroalgae mariculture.
Artificial reefs (Reef Balls)
Alliance: Reef Ball Mexico
Objective: To restore marine ecosystems and protect coastlines through scientifically designed structures.
What are we doing?
We installed reef balls, marine concrete structures that mimic natural reefs.
Regenerative macroalgae mariculture
Alliance: Regeneration Ocean Project
Objective: To promote a climate and productive solution that regenerates ecosystems and generates sustainable income.
What are we doing?
We implemented the cultivation of tropical macroalgae as a tool to regenerate oceans, capture carbon, and offer economic alternatives to coastal communities.
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Supplements for aquaculture and animal production
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Biostimulants for agriculture
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Production of phycocolloids (agar and carrageenan)
They help keep plankton populations under control, ensuring that enough sunlight penetrates the ocean, encouraging the growth of algae and other marine life.
In addition to distributing nutrients throughout the ecosystem, they are especially vulnerable to overexploitation; in a 100-day period, 480 incidental catches were recorded.
Use of algae
Tropical macroalgae cultivation cycle
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Selection of implants for reseeding 20%
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Implant planting
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Growth cycle (60 to 80 days)
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Drying and cleaning 80% production (3 - 4 days)
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Pressing, packaging and export storage
Advances in conservation
Social reach:
1. Social inclusion and gender equality.
2. It improves the quality of life of the communities involved.
3. Education of migratory movements due to lack of job opportunities.
4. Alternative for communities where fishing activities have declined.
Environmental scope:
1. Reduction of pressure on traditional fishing resources.
2. Creation of new ecological niches.
3. They serve as substrate and refuge for various species of fish and invertebrates.
4. They provide significant amounts of dissolved oxygen.
5. They are natural traps for atmospheric CO2.
6. They help mitigate the greenhouse effect.
Economic scope:
1. Job creation in vulnerable coastal communities.
2. Production with clean technologies that are low commercial cost and have low environmental impact.
3. Diversification of economies in communities.
4. Integration with bivalve farming under multi-trophic aquaculture systems.
5. Foreign exchange earnings.
6. Import substitution with local industrial processing of phycocolloids, phytobiotics and biostimulants.