PERU fishing with guts to report…
Since the beginning of the fishing season Sardina, last February 15, the sector lacks adequate monitoring by the government, the NGO warns Oceana Brazil.
“The peak landings of fishery occurs exactly at the opening of the harvest, which begins when the ban ends. Therefore, do not have records of those downloads from the beginning is fatal”He said Brick Mônica Peres, General Director of Oceana Oceana Brazil and Vice President International.
According to the NGO, the data on discharges are only collected by state and private institutions.
“These initiatives are valuable and the data we have in recent years come from those collected”, Continued Brick Peres. “No data is not possible to make a fisheries management of the main marine food resource that supports the most modern fleet in the country and generate thousands of jobs.”
According to the Brazilian Association of Food Industry, the sardine canning industry moves around BRL 1.5 billion (USD 524 million) a year.
This pelagic resource represents about 22% of all marine fish catch in the National Seashore. In 2013, catches totaled 98,600 tonnes Sardina and in 2014, 100,000 tons.
Brazil also imported sardines, which supply about 10% of the domestic market.
Between 65% and 70% of all Sardina captured in the country goes to the canning industry, while the rest is sold frozen and fresh.
The largest Brazilian producers of Sardina are in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, which concentrate the headquarters of the national sardine fleet.
According to Oceana Brazil, there are about 160 registered vessels and an undetermined number of boats operating without registration.
The conservation organization Sardina remember that fishery collapsed between 1999 and 2003, when catches dropped from 120,000 tons in 1997 to 20,000 to 40,000 tons. And says that thanks to the availability of data generated by the monitoring carried out at the time, the problem could be identified and measures that allowed the recovery of the stock of sardines from 2004 were taken.
The last systematic collection of data on Sardina took place between 2013 and 2014, but was not done by the government but by the research project ProSard'Andvaluation of the impact of the closure for the recovery of true sardine fishery in Southeast and South’, Details Oceana.
The study was funded by the Universidad del Valle de Itajaí, the Fisheries Institute Rio de Janeiro (Fiperj), the Fisheries Institute, the University of San Pablo Foundation, the Federal University of Paraná and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso of Chile.
“We hope the required Sardina not reenter collapse and end up in the list of endangered species to be monitored again”, Brick Peres stressed.
SOURCE: Fis.com
