photo: courtesy Revista Puerto

Shrimpers must leave the 'closed zone' today

ARGENTINA
Friday, October 01, 2021, 04:00 (GMT + 9)

After the scandalous levels of bycatch of hake were made public in the closed area created for their protection, the total closure was decided and the ships were notified by radio that they must leave the area at 19 today. For the moment the north is open.

The Director of Fisheries Coordination and Inspection, Julián Suárez, announced yesterday morning the decision taken by the enforcement authority to close the Permanent Ban Area for Hake Juveniles, based on the information provided on September 28 by the INIDEP, indicates the note.

"It has been decided to order the closure of commercial fishing for Prawn (Pleoticus muelleri) within the Permanent Ban Area for Juveniles of Hake (AVPJM) from 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, 2021," says the note issued by the Directorate of Fisheries, through which the Naval Prefecture was notified and requested "to issue a communication by radio frequency to the Fishing Vessels that are affected."

The information provided by INIDEP regarding the levels of shrimp and hake capture in the closed area are not available, but everything suggests that they will speak of low shrimp yields and high levels of hake bycatch, as they had already done. before September 21.

The shrimp fishing dispatch ban was taken that day and was set for September 23, which allowed the fleet to fish in and out of the hake ban for one more tide. Having been aware of the bycatch levels that INIDEP had already reported by then, it is incomprehensible that it was allowed to return to the fishing area and that it was resolved a week later, when the reports seem to have been reconfirmed.

Permanent hake 'Closed zone'

A week ago the authorities were already aware that there were some subareas enabled for fishing where incidental catch levels of hake had been obtained of 161%, that the average in several subareas where the fleet operated was 56% and that also the The percentage of juvenile hake had reached 78%, with the implications of this scenario occurring precisely in the area preserved for the reproduction and rearing of the hubbsi hake.

Photo: courtesy Revista Puerto

For now, only the northern sector will be enabled outside the closed area. The fleet at this time is deciding whether to bow to the parallel of 41º or to return definitively to port. The catches in the north are not good, the boats have not found hake but neither have shrimp.

Another decision of the Federal Fisheries Council that is not understood is precisely that the northern sector remains open, being that in Act 23 it announced the closure of the area between the parallels of 39º and 42º South, with the aim of preserving the females in reproductive process, observed by biologists during the research campaign aboard the ship Mar Argentino, as they argued.

Source: Revista Puerto (article available only in spanish)

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