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DIAZ LLAMAS, J. L.; SOTO CEJA, E.; BRAVO OLIVAS, M. L.  e  CHAVEZ-DAGOSTINO, R. M.. Ecological footprint of an artisanal fishing cooperative in a lagoon body. Revista bio ciencias [online]. 2023, vol.10, e1399.  Epub 12-Abr-2023. ISSN 2007-3380.  https://doi.org/10.15741/revbio.10.e1399.

Fishing is an important economic activity in the world that produces food and generates employment. Although cooperatives have been strengthened as a successful business model, in Mexico they face diverse problems. The use of sustainability indicators is useful to identify areas of opportunity. One of these is the ecological footprint from which the corporate ecological footprint was derived, which measures the environmental impact in surface units. The objective of this work is to identify areas of opportunity for environmental improvement of a fishing cooperative through the evaluation and analysis of the footprint, to generate strategies. The calculation was made through the Composite Method in Financial Accounts. A gross ecological footprint of 299.24 gha was found, as well as 688.96 t of CO2. Opportunity areas are the consumption reduction in the categories of materials, land use of forest resources, and the forest ecosystem, the latter two with greater impact on the footprint. It is recommended that annual monitoring of the footprint be implemented in the future to evaluate its reduction over time.

Palavras-chave : Fishing cooperative; Ecological footprint; Corporate ecological footprint; Carbon footprint; Artisanal fishing.