Santa Cruz Disregards Agreement to Not Fish Shrimp in the Gulf
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(ARGENTINA, 4/30/2024)
Through a provision, it ended the agreement of the Federal Fisheries Council of 2018 that helped sustain the fishery at 200 thousand tons. With it falls the Nation's social quota that they intend to renegotiate. In addition, it requires Santa Cruz permit holders to download and process between 50 and 100 percent of their catches in the province.
The Secretary of Fisheries of Santa Cruz, Harold John Bark, ended a cycle of protection of the Patagonian shrimp with the signing of Resolution 61 that establishes management measures for the capture and processing of the resources of the San Jorge Gulf. Since 2018, fishing was prohibited, based on an agreement with the province of Chubut and since then both provinces...
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