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Jail from today for anyone who builds illegal boats in Peru
The Peruvian Government has promulgated Law 31982, which modifies the Penal Code (legislative decree 635), and legislative decree 1393, a legislative decree that regulates the interdiction of illegal activities in fishing, in order to incorporate and regulate the crime of construction or illegal modification of fishing vessel. From now on, whoever violates the laws or […]
Chile, first country to ratify the UN agreement for the protection of the high seas
Chili This Tuesday it became the first country in the world to ratify the Global Treaty of the Oceansa historic agreement for the conservation of marine biodiversity in international waters (high seas) and which seeks to protect 30% of the seas by 2030. Unanimously, the Chilean Senate approved the so-called Agreement on Marine Biodiversity Beyond […]
Up to 5 years in prison for illegally building fishing vessels
Now the illegal construction or modification of fishing vessels will have a prison sentence of three to five years for being considered the first link in illegal fishing, as approved by the Congress of the republic by majority in one of the last plenary sessions of the year. The autograph that groups four bills (3413/2022-CR, […]
Arequipa: river shrimp fishing season extended until January 2, 2024
The Ministry of Production (Produce) exceptionally extended the fishing season for river shrimp in public water bodies on the western slope of the Andes. Through ministerial resolution No. 00430-2023-PRODUCE, the capture of the Cryphiops caementarius in public water bodies on the western slope of the Andes is extended until January 2, 2024. “The extraction, processing, […]
When taking care of the sea is better than fishing to put food on the table
Don Isis is 60 years old and since he was a child he dealt with the uncertainty of fishing in a model that he now knows “exhausted” and so 15 years ago, together with his fishing cooperative, he switched to ecotourism to take care of a bay in the Haitises National Park, in Dominican Republic, […]
They present a claim for protection against the Somos Perú law that formalizes 2,000 illegal vessels
The Superior Court of Justice of Lima admitted for processing the claim for protection against the approval of Bill 5496-2022-CR or “Bill that Strengthens the Process of Formalization of Artisanal Fishing Vessels” by the Congress of the Republic. According to the document, it is requested, as a preventive protection, to abstain from continuing with the […]
Association of Industrial Shipowners insists on expanding the juvenile quota in anchovy fishing to 30%
The Association of Industrial Wood Shippers of Peru held a meeting with the Minister of Production, Ana María Choquehuancain whichand asked that the fishing sector be declared an emergency, since they currently cannot afford to pay salaries, loans and taxes. “We ask that the sector declare an emergency because we have to pay a payroll, […]
Produce would evaluate reducing the minimum allowed catch size of anchovy
The minimum permitted catch size for anchovy is 12 centimeters, so fishing it below this measurement puts its reproduction and the sustainability of the resource at risk. However, it emerged that the Ministry of Production (Produce) I would be willing to analyze whether it is possible to “update” the size at the request of the […]
Alfonso Miranda: “We must be careful that (the anchovy) is not going to be affected”
The president of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Committee of the SNI, Alfonso Miranda, explained that, from his perspective, the most important thing regarding the second anchovy fishing season is that if juveniles are found, closure measures be taken immediately. In addition, he pointed out the factors that are having a negative impact on the squid […]