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Argentina bans hake and squid fisheries; Auditing office confirms over-fishing
Argentina suspended the hake season in the south of Patagonia and banned squid operations following on scientific reports of over fishing that have considerably limited catches of both species said industry sources following an official audit which questions government fisheries controls. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“ ... “This year they are back and in big numbers which means they are having a very good catch season in the Malvinas zone”, complained Guillermo Jacob president of the Chamber of Fishing and Cold Storage vessels ...”
May 27th, 2011 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well maybe the Argies can buy some licences from the FIG ....... special rate for an annoying little neighbour ... say 200 % :-)
I think it's safe to assume that Argentina's Fisheries Protection neither protect the fish which are in terminal decline, or the industry which depend on a sustainable stock.
May 27th, 2011 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Fisheries Research is woeful, and cannot provide guidance to inform the practice of the Protection and legislative arms.
Unfortunately, much of specific squid stocks in the Falkland Islands EEZ breed in Argentinean coastal waters (del Plata), and continue to be severely overfished *on Argentinean licences* when so aggregated.
The future looks less than rosy for both Argentinean and Falklands fisheries.
“Industry sources blamed problems with squid on the ‘illegal’ competition from Chinese and Korean fleets licensed by the Falklands/Malvinas government that ‘invade’ Argentine jurisdiction”
May 28th, 2011 - 09:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0-An interesting statement from a political point of view:
Note how only calls it illegal when these boats trespass on Argentina's EEZ, and not by virtue of merely operating in the Falklands EEZ.
Note how he also refers to a Falklands/Malvinas government issuing licences.
Dear me somebodies not following the Argentine govt script :)
About time too.
May 28th, 2011 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guess there's no point in adding blue whiting to the list because they've already destroyed that fishery through bloody minded incompetence.
And the most criminal part is that they could have all the access they want to Falklands fisheries expertise and data, but they choose not to.
No sympathy with the complaints about Falklands licensed jiggers crossing into their zone. Just deal with it, the same way that we deal with poachers. It's not rocket science.
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