Secretary of Fisheries (Mexico)

In Mexico the Secretary of Fisheries was the head of the Secretariat of Fisheries (, SEPESCA). The secretary was a member of the presidential cabinet.

In 1994 President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León merged the Secretariat of Fisheries and the Secretariat of the Environment to create the Secretariat of the Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries (, SEMARNAP), which itself was later replaced by the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) in 2000.

The last three Secretaries of Fisheries were:

• (1982–1988)
• María de los Ángeles Moreno (1988–1991)
• Guillermo Jiménez Morales (1991–1994)

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