Opinion Article | The Illex Squid and the 200-Mile Myopia: Toward a Holistic and Sovereign Approach in the South Atlantic
ARGENTINA Friday, June 05, 2026, 16:00 (GMT + 9)
In recent days, the debate over the management of the Illex argentinus squid fishery has flared up again following official announcements to add 18 new vessels to the national jigger fleet. The justifications put forward by the sector's authorities run along strikingly limited tracks. While the National Director of Fisheries Coordination and Control, Arturo Idoyaga Molina, defends the measure under an eminently economic and short-term revenue-driven logic—an argument which, taken to its absurd conclusion, would imply that introducing 180 ships would multiply wealth tenfold without any regard for sustainability—the Chubut representative on the Federal Fisheries Council, Andrés Arbeletche opts for a politically correct simplification: restoring the fleet to the historical size it lost over the years, a decision that within the sector's corridors is flatly ... FULL STORY
