Chile managed 297,000 tonnes of mackerel, more than 2014

In distribution, Chile was followed by China who got 29,200 tonnes and the European Union, who stayed with 28,100 tons.

Tras cinco jornadas de intensas negociaciones entre los países miembros y cooperantes durante la Tercera Comisión de la Organización Regional de Pesca del Pacífico Sur (ORP-PS), la que se llevó a cabo desde el lunes 2 de febrero en Auckland (Nueva Zelandia), Chile finally managed to get 297,000 tonnes for the extraction of Mackerel both in their territorial waters and offshore during 2015, which means 7,000 tons more than in 2014.

In distribution, Chile was followed by China who got 29,200 tonnes and the European Union, who stayed with 28,100 tons. With these figures, Chile reaffirmed its dominant share of the mackerel resource and extractive activity for the industrial, craft and processing with stability for the rest of the year is projected industry.

The agreement reached by the eleven member countries was consensual and face the aforementioned differences between the various delegations, won the awarded by the President of the international organization, the New Zealand Bill Mansfield.

As stated by the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture and head of the Chilean delegation, Raul Súnico, "returned to Chile satisfied, because not only consolidated our significant participation level tons but also control measures to the distant fleet that as a nation we promote

Another achievement of the Chilean delegation was the adoption of a framework for assessing compliance with the control measures for both member states and donors. In that vein, Súnico stressed that "our country in this organization not only aims to achieve a certain number of tonnes of mackerel but also generate stringent measures for the management and conservation of fishery resources in the South Pacific".

Importantly, the final day the Chilean and professional lawyer Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca), Osvaldo Urrutia, assumed the vice presidency of the Commission with the support of all member countries.

The next meeting of the Regional Fisheries Organisation South Pacific will be held in Chile in January 2016.

SOURCE: AQUA