Research
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Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S. C., CIBNOR, performs a wide array of biological studies and research paying special attention to four main fields, which are:
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AQUACULTURE
 Aquaculture represents the food industry of major growth at world level (around 10% pa.). This is why we foresee that in a few years, it will strengthen as one of the main activities for food production and employment in our country.
Because 94% of the aquaculture production comes from the northwestern part of the country, CIBNOR’s location is ideal to attend to the demands of the industry. Research (basic and applied) is performed and directed to solve problems in the industry and to propose strategies to diversify production through the development of culture technologies and their transfer to the productive sector.
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AGRICULTURE IN DRY LAND AREAS
The agriculture and livestock sector confronts problems due to extreme conditions in arid and semi-arid areas, such as high solar radiation, water resource, brackish water, and the recurrent drought periods in México.
In CIBNOR we develop sustainable management systems for culture irrigation of key species for the development of agriculture in Northwest Mexico, including horticultural species, forage, fruit trees, halophytes, desert and organic plants with local, national, and international marketing potential.
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FISHERIES ECOLOGY
Fisheries in México have a wide economic growth margin that derives from their backward state. A great part of this production comes from the Gulf of California, considered as one of the most productive ocean areas in the world.
Research at CIBNOR in Fisheries Ecology is focused on basic and applied research that contributes to national fisheries development, based on sustainability and creation of wealth, identification of verifiable resources capable of increasing national catch, and conservation of marine biodiversity with the minimum effect on Mexican marine ecosystems.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND CONSERVATION
 At CIBNOR, environmental planning and conservation is dealt through directed research to determine the effects of human activities in biological systems, in such a way that this information allows ways of making human activities compatible with conservation and management of natural resources.
Likewise, the information obtained on biological diversity of Northwest México helps to generate an integral diagnosis on the potential use of natural resources, particularly in BCS, and to determine the environmental factors that favor the presence of species of interest, as well as the human and natural threats that affect them.
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