PERU fishing with guts to report…
The Head of the Ministry of Production (PRODUCE), Piero Ghezzi, confirmed today that the extraction of anchovy grow this year more than 30 percent compared to the figure recorded in 2014.
“Fishing could have easily grow 30 percent, even more compared to last year, which was a bad year for fishing. The depreciation of the exchange rate should also favor the industrial sector and increase exports of this resource”, he said.
Ghezzi also stated that the fishing season in the north and center of the country start in April, the advanced product that monitoring of the Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE) is.
In this regard, he explained that in this area the cruise IMARPE and is halfway, culminating in late March and then it was taken a few days to analyze the collected data and prepare its report.
“En la medida en que las condiciones estén dadas, la temporada se podría iniciar en abril, muy condicionada a lo que diga el (informe del) IMARPE”, he said.
Opening fishing season
On the other hand said that in the coming days PRODUCE issue a supreme decree to reduce the time between the declaration of fishing season and the opening thereof, which currently is 16 working days.
“Under the current rules are requested 16 working days between declaring the fishing season and open, which can be 25 days calendars if we Saturdays and Sundays account. This is something that should be corrected because in a month long sea change and may not be fishing when the season opens”He said.
He explained that this is because in the past the authorities delayed 16 days to nominate vessels, but with technological advances nomination can take a day, time that could open the fishing season after filing bankruptcy.
“We need to implement a more flexible policy. The Sea is changing and we must be responsible waist industry to adapt to an exchange actually”, Subrayó Ghezzi.
SOURCE: Andina.com.pe
