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The Federal Fisheries Council approved the closure of the northern sector for shrimp

ARGENTINA
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 07:00 (GMT + 9)

The decision adopted by the Federal Fisheries Council was based on the reports received by the researchers on the discovery of females in the reproductive process during the campaign carried out in the south of the province of Buenos Aires and Golfo San Matías. The poles rise until next season.

In Minute 23 of the Federal Fisheries Council, a summary of the notes presented by INIDEP should have been made since the first week of September, because more than 20 days passed without communicating the decisions of the Council and the recommendations of the researchers. In these notes, the authorities were notified about the low yields or high levels of bycatch in each of the subareas where shrimp was intended to be caught, until the authorities finally resolved to completely close the hake fishing 'ban area' and the El Rincón area, for shrimp fishing. Later, in the last meeting, they decided to close the northern sector based on preliminary reports of the campaign carried out in that sector with the research vessel Mar Argentino.

The data sent by INIDEP indicate that between August 30 and September 17, the fleet operated in several of the subareas within the Hake Ban and outside, between latitudes 40 ° and 41 ° South, north of the Subarea 2. The average yield for the entire area was 1,667 kilos per hour and the highest point concentration occurred to the north of Subarea 2, reaching a peak of 40,068 kilos per hour. The size structure, in all subareas, had a percentage of juvenile prawns below the established limit.

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"The report states that throughout this period the concentrations found were rapidly depleted, producing a continuous movement of boats between all subareas," says the minutes and indicates that by September 17, biologists suggested the closure of the fishery within of the 'banned area'. The hake bycatch in the period analyzed between September 12 and 19 yielded values ​​of 56% in three of the subareas that were enabled for fishing.

The situation of the resource in the northern sector was also learned, outside the closure between the parallels of 39 and 41 degrees, a space where INIDEP has just carried out a campaign to know the potential of the resource in that area.

Permanente hake banned area

The Directorate of Fisheries sent a note to the Council last Tuesday communicating that, based on the data collected in the «Shrimp survey in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires and north of Río Negro», there were observed “concentrations of shrimp very punctual, with females close to spawning ”.

The decision to close that area was not related to hake, given that the bycatch levels were between 0 and 5%, but the Enforcement Authority took it to preserve the spawning of the shrimp. The communication became official in Minute 23, when the Council gave its approval to close “the area defined between the parallels 39 ° 00 'and 41 ° 00' of South latitude and west of the 60 ° meridian of West longitude”, in the meeting last Thursday, although without specifying time or date. In this way, the 2021 shrimp season in national waters was ended. 

Source: Revista Puerto (article available only in spanish)

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