The Commission of Maritime Interests, Fisheries and Aquaculture Senate Chamber dispatched signs the bill that sets except for artisanal hand line fishing of the species mackerel and amending regulation scheme extension property management areas and exploitation of benthic resources.

The message, which is in its second constitutional amends the General Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture (LPGA) in the relevant articles to establish an exception to the overall catch quota regarding the extraction of mackerel performing artisanal fishermen hand line aboard artisanal boats up to 12 meters.

Similarly, detailed the website of the Upper House (www.senado.cl), allow that they can continue to establish those areas of management and expansion thereof, which were filed prior to Law 20,657.

The Fisheries Act protects

The Chair of the Congressional instance, Cenadora Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe, said that approved "Some indications that were pending and completed the Executive enter, in order to be seen shortly by the Board".

With this, explained the legislator, "Catching mackerel hand line to vessels up to 12 meters you authorized without cover, so that actually is a fee for subsistence and is well within the historical share they have usually taken, which is sheltered

Background

The Message makes this formerly respect of Maximum Catch Limits by Owner (LMCA), the legislation provided an exception for artisanal fishing activity exerted hand line for the species mackerel, which was intended to recognize an activity

In that sense, Law 20,657, which amended the Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture, there was issued a similar arrangement described above, occur today, in practice, a situation that affects small-scale fishermen engaged extraction with fishing gear on hand line mackerel resource, subsistence purposes.

SOURCE: Aqua.cl