6 CONCLUSIONS

In the study area P-P, Nayarit, 163 UPAs are devoted to shrimp farming using only semi-intensive culture systems in earthen ponds with minimal technological levels due to their limited financial resources and the scarce support received by the producers.

Most production units face water availability problems for their aquaculture operation, largely due to siltation of estuaries and channels used for the supply of water.
70 percent of the UPAs performs only one productive cycle per year while 30 percent perform 2 cycles per year.
100 percent of the production units in the study area do not comply with the current applicable legal framework for shrimp farming.
Low competitiveness of UPAs is due to high input costs for the operation of aquaculture farms, especially the costs of balanced feeds, which represent 50 percent of total production costs.
Sanitary conditions are part of the main problems that shrimp aquaculture faces, since the site has been affected by diseases such as White Spot Viral Disease, Taura virus, and IHHNV virus, and more recently, atypical mortalities have been reported related to acute hepatopancreatic necrosis syndrome.

The P-P, Nayarit study area offers a significant potential for the growth of aquaculture, having a surface area of 3,741.59 ha (31.33 percent) of high aptitude if shrimp farming projects are developed in compliance with the current legal framework.