In the first half of April, the Plenary Session of Congress approved the rule that seeks to prioritize artisanal and ancestral fishing within the first five miles of the Peruvian coastline with the aim of preserving it. The autograph has not yet been promulgated by the Executive.
In this regard, the head of the Ministry of Production, Raúl Pérez Reyes Espejo, indicated that his office agrees with the intangibility of the first 5 nautical miles. “In that sense, the law seems correct to us and we would agree,” he told a news conference.
However, he warned that the recently approved initiative contains “additional provisions” that go against a law that was approved less than two months ago and that penalizes some breaches in terms of illegal fishing.
“We are concerned that illegal fishing is being decriminalized through this law. I think that is what the law should be reviewed. You have to correct that second part that was not initially in the discussion and appeared at the end of the text,” he said.
Formalization of fishing fleet
On the other hand, on July 31, close to a thousand fishing boats from cooperatives in the San José cove, La Islilla and Tortugas, in Piura, would become illegal because Produce has not yet issued the regulation that allows them to finalize its formalization.
In this sense, Minister Pérez Reyes indicated that the Executive is working on this legal provision, which it would publish in the coming days. “The supreme decree is in progress. I would hope that in the following days it will be published so that the fishing right of all these artisanal fishermen brothers is defined,” he mentioned.
Source: Larepublica
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