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Distribution of 3,500 Tons of Shrimp for Río Negro Begins

ARGENTINA
Friday, July 12, 2024, 01:00 (GMT + 9)

In the Weretilneck Government they assume that this volume of social quota will be claimed by the province 'annually' and that it will not be only for 2024. They say that this was López Cazorla's 'commitment'. The Province will begin this week to nominate ships to enter national waters.

The Minister of Productive Development of Río Negro, Carlos Banacloy, assured that the unloading of these tons of shrimp, in ports in his province, will boost the local economy by strengthening the installed infrastructure and estimates that “hundreds of new jobs will be generated in the region.”

Source: Revista Puerto

Two weeks ago, the Federal Fisheries Council chaired by Juan Antonio López Cazorla approved the 'extraordinary' allocation of 3,500 tons of catch of the Pleoticus gallinari species as a social quota to address the 'fishing emergency' of that jurisdiction with a maritime coastline.

In that vote, in addition to the president of the CFP, the representatives of the national government: Miguel Schmukler, Martín Fernández, Paola Gucioni and Pablo Mazzoni; The representative of Santa Cruz, Harold Bark, and Sergio Paleo, the lawyer from Mar del Plata who represents Rio Negro interests, also voted positively. As will be remembered, Carla Seain from the province of Buenos Aires and Carlos Cantú from Tierra del Fuego voted against; while Andrés Arbeletche from Chubut opted for a lukewarm abstention.

The exception made the rule

“Accessing the social shrimp quota implies for our province the generation and maintenance of hundreds of jobs in the Atlantic area of ​​Rio Negro and the promotion of towns like San Antonio Oeste,” said the Minister of Economic and Productive Development, Carlos Banacloy.

The government of Alberto Weretilneck accessed the precious social quota of 3,500 tons of shrimp in the hours before the vote on the Bases Law in Congress, where the legislators who respond to the provincial leader supported the initiative of Javier Milei.

The provincial Executive assures that this quota will not be limited to 2024 exclusively, but that they have obtained the 'political commitment' of the Undersecretary of Aquaculture Resources and Fisheries, Juan Antonio López Cazorla, so that this allocation continues to be renewed annually.

Emergency without those responsible

“A new season for shrimp is beginning, which is going to provide a lot of work in the next 6 months and very actively to the San Matías Gulf, with the two ports and the two plants, but in addition, the port of San Antonio is the “where these 3,500 boxes will be unloaded (sic) and a part of this will also surely be processed in the Sierra Grande plants,” Banancloy stated in an official statement released by the government. The official, in his outpouring of joy, mistook boxes for tons.

All in all, Río Negro is going through its second year in a state of “fisheries emergency”, without the Undersecretariat of Fisheries headed by Jessica Ressler having made a mea culpa for the deficient provincial fisheries administration policies, since the official is in charge of the area since August 2021, when Arabela Carreras was governor. Ressler arrived in 2021 to replace Jorge Bridi, the almost lifelong undersecretary of fisheries from Rio Negro, who for now enjoys a conchabo in INIDEP.

The hake is collapsed in the San Matías Gulf as a result of the management measures adopted in recent years by the provincial fishing ministry, without intervention or biological monitoring of the resource. Researchers admit that the recovery of the species' biomass could take years, although so far no one is taking responsibility.

Author: Nelson Saldivia | Revista Puerto  (Translated from the original in Spanish)

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