After almost 10 years, another test begins for two more years. Photo: Courtesy Revista Puerto
New try to implement an on-board camera control system
ARGENTINA
Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 06:00 (GMT + 9)
Through a provision, the Undersecretary of Fisheries established a two-year trial period to put into operation a comprehensive control system through video cameras on board vessels of the fishing fleet. They had already tried without success a decade ago.
The Undersecretariat of Fisheries returns to the charge with the control of the fleet through video cameras. Through Provision 52/2021, signed by Carlos Liberman, an implementation and testing period of two years was established in order to put the Camera System on board Fishing Vessels into operation.
D uring this period, the National Directorate for Fisheries Coordination and Inspection "will test and put into operation a Comprehensive Control System that outperforms the" Control System through Video Cameras on Board of the Fishing Fleet Vessels ", as follows established in the first article of the standard that was published in the Official Boletin.
The Directorate in charge of Julián Suárez will have the power to dictate all the rules and administrative acts that are necessary to carry out the tests and the implementation of the system referred to in the first article.
More than ten years ago, an attempt was made to create the Integrated Control System through video cameras and the recording of information in real time on board fishing vessels, as one more tool to carry out the control of the activity.
In 2015, with financing from the Inter-American Development Bank, within the framework of the Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Program (PRODESPA) executed by the Unit for Rural Change of the Ministry of Agriculture, the monitoring, control and inspection service was tendered through the provision and installation of the camera system and remote data transfer in fishing vessels.
In 2016, the National Directorate for Fisheries Coordination required the collaboration of the parties involved in order to initiate a test stage to begin implementing the system. But through a Technical Report, the National Director of Fisheries Coordination and Inspection alluded to the General Directorate of Legal Affairs that “after having installed the corresponding cameras in several fishing vessels, in the measure that they carried out the authorized tides with the equipment working, it it did not last, due to the fact that various technical problems arose that required an adjustment of the technological platform in order to optimize its operation ”, as reflected in the recitals of Provision 52/2021
In April 2019, the Undersecretariat of Fisheries proposed to repeal the provisions that supported the control and monitoring program, given that "when trying to put the implemented technological platform into practice, many of its components and processes were inadequate and obsolete."
On the other hand, "certain technical failures were evidenced, both due to the lack of maintenance of the installed equipment, as well as impediments in the partial or total registration of fishing operations because they were not inviolable," they clarified.
In this new attempt, it is established that the companies that manufacture fishing vessels will be responsible for the expenses required for the maintenance of the equipment installed and / or to be installed.
Finally, the new provision also suspends the validity of Provisions 206/2010, 1/2011 and 86/2013, all of the Undersecretariat of Fisheries, until the aforementioned National Directorate "completes the implementation and testing procedure and depending on the Article 2 of the present, dictates the norms and / or the administrative acts that determine the convenience of rehabilitating the validity of the same or its substitution by a system that exceeds the one provided in them ”.
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