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Peruvian artisanal fishing sector: Cancer and metastasis
PERU
Sunday, August 11, 2024, 01:00 (GMT + 9)
Formalization is an immemorial need of the artisanal fishing sector, which began to materialize since 2016. However, this had to go through the systemic approach of a new management paradigm, which would provide greater incentives to operate formally, in the face of a status quo that sponsors informality. It was expected that this new approach would have multiple dimensions and that, in that sense, the officialization of vessels would be nothing more than a starting point, to reform an economic activity that operates under accounting, labor and tax standards, typical of a country that seeks accelerate their path to development.
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As of 2016, nearly 15 thousand artisanal boats have been successfully formalized and, therefore, it is necessary to begin to discuss scaling this process to other areas. However, unfortunately in the sector there is a tendency not to look enthusiastically at the future, but to cling tenaciously to the past. In recent years, instead of promoting the other necessary chapters of formalization, we have observed strenuous efforts by officials and congressmen to seek ways to continue legalizing more vessels ad infinitum. This is simply unfeasible, because the resources cannot support unlimited growth in fishing effort. If we continue like this, sooner or later, there will be no fish to catch.
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The General Directorate of Supervision, Inspection and Sanctions of the Ministry of Production has prepared an clarifying report on the reality of illegal boat construction. The cancer metastasized. Given the constant flirtation with the promoters of illegality by some who should have eradicated it, a problem that we believed was focused in the north, is now spread along the Peruvian coast, with new centers located in the south of the country.
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In the last two years, the Ministry of Production has identified 94 sites for the illegal construction of artisanal boats, more than half of these being found in Moquegua and Arequipa. In both departments, the Ministry of Production recognizes that there is very little level of coordination with other competent entities such as the General Directorate of Captaincies and Coast Guard (DICAPI), the Attorney General's Office, the National Police and the National Forestry Service (SERFOR). . It also recognizes that there are no uniform intervention criteria within each of these instances.
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Today there should be no excuses for the complacent inaction of the different state bodies, which have sufficient legal tools and a Penal Code that undoubtedly criminalizes the crime of illegal boat construction. However, the interinstitutional interdiction protocol has not yet been developed to deactivate the criminal activity of shipyards that were caught in flagrante delicto. It has not been developed, despite being the most powerful instrument to combat this type of illegality and the legal obligation to activate it since 2018.
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Furthermore, incredibly, this report recognizes the existence of sanctions for building ships irregularly, but admits that no fines are imposed because a methodology to set their value has not been approved. They define it as indeterminable. Typical case in the fight of our authorities against crime. Poor Peru!
There is no time for any more missteps in this work. The Ministry of Production must listen to the analysis of its professionals and act diligently with DICAPI, Police, Prosecutor's Office and SERFOR to immediately deactivate the illicit construction sites of warehouses that have already been identified and that operate with comfortable impunity. They need to address their responsibilities and close the loopholes that their own good servants have detailed.
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