PERU fishing with guts to report…
In 2003 the Supreme Decree No. 026-2003-PRODUCE, established the regulation SISESAT Satellite Tracking System for control of industrial fishing vessels, according to this rule all vessels licensed to fish for industrial use are required
To ensure effective monitoring of the activities of the industrial fishing fleet, it must be directly the Ministry of Production who hire the services of suppliers and logically cancel the entity responsible for its services, the funds to pay for satellite control
As such, industrial fishing rights must be adjusted to a real value not less than 15% of the FOB value to thereby justifying anything, the use of this valuable resource for the benefit of a few.
be strict and be in charge of top professionals with remuneration commensurate with the responsibility assumed.
If estimásemos very conservatively valued at US $ 400 per metric ton of fishmeal produced during the 60 years of the industrial fisheries would have to be 250 million tons of Peruvian anchoveta Mar learned in that period, should have generated no less
In this regard, the case of the Republic of Vietnam is worth keeping in mind;
But perhaps the most serious of the Peruvian fishing matrix, is that despite having the richest sea in the world, with official reports fishing between 6 and 8 million tonnes of anchovy per year, we maintain one of the highest levels
Bankruptcy Marine Ecological Balance The following table (Jahncke 2004), based on two scenarios, illustrating the effect of industrial fishing of anchovy on the ecological chain in the Peruvian Sea:
Scenario (A) prior to the start of industrial fishing in the fifties, showing a natural balance in marine ecology. 85.6% Anchovy is captured by other predators (Bonito, Mackerel, Mackerel, Corvina, cojinova and others), as well as men and 14.4% are food for sea birds; with significant artisanal fisheries for human and important industry supply guano islands.
• Scenario (B) marine ecosystem after the advent of industrial fishing, where 85% of the anchovy is intended for the production of fishmeal, only 12.8% is captured by other predators (including artisanal fisheries) and a poor 2.2% serves as food for seabirds.
The breakdown of the marine ecological balance, has obvious consequences:
1 Shortage, disappearance and / or out of commercial species for human consumption that contribute to food security of the population. 2 Significant reduction in the population of sea birds, which have been reported cases of mass deaths of seabirds.
Over 60 years, industrial fishing has proved obsolete, exclusive, polluting, wasteful and harmful to the interests of the country, so as in other parts of the world, we find that the fisheries are ecologically, economically
In artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, major efforts are being developed quietly and steadily to bring Anchovies and other aquatic resources to the table in the most vulnerable sectors of the population are given;
Peru has the world's richest fishing Sea and is called to be the basis of National Food Security.
By: * Alfredo Armendariz Abanto
