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More than 80 thousand tons of shrimp unloaded in ports of the province of Chubut

ARGENTINA
Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 07:50 (GMT + 9)

These are the landings of the current season in national waters. The data was revealed by Gabriel Aguilar who highlighted the fishing and port dynamics that the resource injects. He appreciated the application of sanitary protocols that allowed to work with continuity and without ups and downs.

The Secretary of Fisheries of the province of Chubut, José Gabriel Aguilar, evaluated as auspicious the evolution of the shrimp fishery in waters of national jurisdiction that has been developing since June. The official valued the importance of the resource that stimulates the local economy by generating port movement and processing plants with peaks of activity.

"We have been breaking landing records in the province again," he said regarding the national waters season, "we initially started at the height of the city of Comodoro, north of the province of Santa Cruz, that area had good fishing yields both in quantity, volume and commercial size, and in a short time, I suppose, due to the stress suffered by the resource with more than 120 vessels in a relatively small area, they quickly exhausted that fishing ground, "he described in statements to AzM Radio.

After that initial started, “that sector was closed and the boats began to have lower yields because there were no shrimp in the rest of the areas. Today, the fleet is fishing further north, stepping on the border with the province of Río Negro, for that reason, in Puerto Madryn they observe a large number of vessels that enter and leave permanently, because it is almost in front, ” he clarified.

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Fishery evolution

Aguilar said that in these weeks “the yields have risen and a significant amount of tons have been caught. In ports of Chubut we have been exceeding 80,000 tons of landed shrimp ”, he pointed out.

However, he clarified that “compared to previous years we come with the same returns. At first we thought that we were going to have lower yields, because there were weeks when the resource was not found, there was a biological stoppage of seven business days because new prospects had to be made to survey other areas ”.

"Now the resource has migrated a little to the north, and the boats have found it and are fishing well," he underlined while indicating that "I do not have the final numbers because this depends on the Subsecretaria de Pesca de la Nacion Argentina, but the information that we handle is a little more informal, which depends on the unloading of the three operating ports that the province has for the shrimp fleet ”, he said.

Sotrni Pier at Madryn Port (Puerto Madryn). Photo: courtesy Revista Puerto

Intense port activity

However, “we have more than 80 thousand tons of shrimp landed in the ports of Comodoro Rivadavia, Camarones and Puerto Madryn. Today Puerto Madryn has become the emblem of the landing because the resource is almost in front, so the navigability of the fishing area to Madryn is the closest port ", explained the head of the provincial Fisheries portfolio.

“Today that port is much more operational, we have expanded Site 2, and that gave it 33% more operability, both for frozen and fresh, with this it makes the ships choose Madryn for being logistically strategic and for that reason it is saturated with ships, ” he said about the strong increase in port activity in the Gulf city. "This is important because it moves the entire fishing circuit," he reasoned.

Health protocols

This increase in port activity “also demands greater responsibility from us with the application of sanitary protocols, which we have designed so that a sector as dynamic as fishing is not spoiled by a greater number of people working without control. the figure of the administrator of the Port of Madryn and all his team, since we carried out a massive vaccination there to immunize the people who work in the port and the fishing people, so that we travel in the middle of a pandemic with a productive sector such as fishing in full operation, and the truth is that we have been working well ”, he concluded. 

Author: Nelson Saldivia / Revista Puerto (article available only in spanish)

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