Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Aquaculture has increased its social and economic impact in the world through food production, income generation, as well as the provision of offspring for the repopulation of threatened or overexploited aquatic species. In Mexico, Sinaloa is the leader in national farmed shrimp production. Thus, the purpose of the research is to analyze the economic viability of the Representative Production Units (RPU) of shrimp in the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa. The information was obtained in the period of the year 2022 in the municipality of Ahome, Sinaloa, through the producer panel technique. This technique allowed obtaining the economic, financial and net cash flow or disbursed costs. A 70-hectare URP was built for shrimp farming. Detailed information was collected on costs, classified as disbursed, financial and economic, prices, income and performance. Taking as a point of reference the most likely sale price ($62 kg) in the study region, the income from the sale of shrimp at the farm is sufficient to cover the disbursed, financial and economic costs, therefore, the modeled RPU is economically viable.