PERU fishing with guts to report…
Have had a good season pelagic artisanal fishermen in the region of Atacama. Is that environmental phenomena have caused the mackerel resource is located off the coast of Caldera, allowing artisanal fishermen taking historic landings of this resource.
According to estimates by the Division of Fisheries Development of the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SUBPESCA), landings of mackerel, reaching 9,000 tons to date are valued at $ 1,400 million.
Para el Director zonal de Pesca y Acuicultura de las regiones de Atacama y de Coquimbo, Javier Rivera, "There is pressure from artisanal fishers to generate a mechanism to increase the quota taking into account the good results this season, but as Undersecretary and industry regulator have no power to do so".
The acuíola-fishing regional authority said they understand the aspirations of the sector"But the new law took any decision to increase share authority. What we have tried to work with fishermen is buying tons per industrial sector, which has already resulted in two instances and hope to realize other transfers during the year. "
Note that the mackerel quota was allocated for our country in the last session of the Regional Organization for South Pacific Fisheries (ORP-PS) and where Chile reached an annual catch quota of 297,000 tonnes.
SOURCE: Aqua.cl
