To help the sustainability of the fishing sector by strengthening accountability and reducing the risk of bad practices in this sector, the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries (MPCEIP) together with Conservation International signed an act in the Guayaquil Commitment called “Implementation of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative in Ecuador (FiTI)”.

The aim of this agreement is to increase transparency in the national fishing sector, which must be gradually fulfilled by the publication of fishing data required by the FiTI standard.

In addition, the document is part of “Ecuador’s second Open Government Action Plan” within the Open Government Partnership (OGP) international initiative, which currently consists of 76 countries and more than 100 governments. local, which seeks to ensure that governments promote transparency, the fight against corruption, participation, governance, free access to public information and the use of new technologies.

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Ecuador has been part of this alliance since July 18, 2018. Now Ecuador is implementing its second Open Government Action Plan, which includes the functions of the state, levels of decentralized government and more social actors that strive to build a more open and inclusive .

Andrés Arens, Deputy Minister of Aquaculture and Fisheries, and a representative of the responsible institution, together with Xavier Chalén, from Conservation International, collaborator, signed this document, and Patricio Lloret, Undersecretary of the Open Government of the Presidency of the Republic, as an honorary witness.

“In order to approve and control activities, it is necessary to issue fishing management measures, as well as possess all scientific information. But it must be subject to the scrutiny of all those interested in the sustainability of fishing resources, and the only way to achieve this is through high standards of transparency. We are leaders in implementing modern measures to ensure that our future generations enjoy what we are now: a fishing facility,” said Arens.

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While Lloret stated: “We came to sign the will of this important commitment for access and transparency of information, but also for competitiveness, an element that contributes to the work that the ministry does on current issues through constant evaluation”.

For his part, Chalén also highlighted this type of action.

“It is an honor to attend the signing of this commitment and to be part of the FiTI standard. The government of Ecuador has promised to participate in this initiative. Conservation International has joined efforts with MPCEIP to make the country a regional model in fisheries. We are, economically speaking, a country that lives off these resources,” said a representative of Conservation International.