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CFP takes arbitrary decisions about shrimp and hake quotas

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 20:10 (GMT + 9)

The distribution of hake quotas from quotas subjet to judicial measures continued, and the closing of the shrimp season was extended against the recommendations of INIDEP. A new criterion was also applied to justify the lack of quota exploitation in ships with more than seven years of inactivity.

The Federal Fisheries Council met again after a break that only finds explanation in the participation of some of its members in the Conxemar Fair, in Vigo. Last Thursday, in addition to continuing to distribute quota of judicialized hake, they established a new and strange criterion of justification of lack of exploitation of quotas, which applies to ships with more than seven years of inactivity. They also decided to extend the shrimp fishing season within the hake ban area although the biological recommendations indicate otherwise for having started the reproductive cycle of this species.

Distribution of judicialized quotas

After the members of the Council decided to make use of hake quotas under judicial process in Act 28, being “on the edge” of legality, as stated by  Deputy Fisheries Secretary Juan Bosch, in Act 29 proceeded to give continuity to the distribution of this extra quota of the Administration Reserve. In order to cover “the supply needs of the plants to maintain the work on land,” 390 tons of the 2,940 available were distributed, which shows that there is no great interest in capturing this species.

Justification of lack of quota exploitation in ships with up to seven years of inactivity

The lack of exploitation of quota for three consecutive years implies the loss of that asset for the company, as established by the Federal Quota Regime. But again, making a strange interpretation of the rule, associated with a transitional resolution, the Council decided that the justification for inactivity implies the direct justification of the lack of exploitation for long periods. Even if they contradict the norm they invoke.

This new criterion was applied on the Don Luciano ship of the Taturiello firm, inactive since February 2015 and on the Wiron IV ship, of the same firm, which made its last fishing trip in November 2012. The data arises from the minutes of the Federal Fisheries Council.

“The justification of the commercial inactivity of a vessel with a fishing permit and with CITC determines the exclusion from the calculation of the justified period as lack of exploitation. In other words, the justification of commercial inactivity entails the suspension of the burden of exploiting the quota during the justified period - be it during the whole year or in its proportional part ”, according to Article 48 of the General CITC Regime, the Minutes indicate.



Beginning of ACTA CFP Nº 29/2019

The argument is valid for cases in which the ship, due to operational problems, is inactive for a period of more than 180 days and this can be accredited with documentation, but the same Regime they cited establishes the total loss of the quota for those who do not use it for a period exceeding three years, span that both ships have exceeded widely.

At the same time, the members of the Council pointed out that “Resolution CFP N° 8/19 established a transitory mechanism that allows inactive vessels, with a request for justification presented in time and pending resolution, to operate again within the period established therein, or to transfer the fishing permit or include it in a reformulation of fishing projects” and therefore, if it meets these conditions of commercial inactivity, the lack of exploitation is also justified.

With this argument the Council intend to give the owner of the ships the opportunity to sell or reformulate his permit; but coincidentally the same transitory resolution they cite establishes that after two years without activity the ship will lose the permit. We will have to sit down and wait to see who they are looking for to benefit from this poor interpretation of the norm, in addition to the original owner of the ships.

Biological management, at the discretion of the authority

Since there are no management plans for hake and shrimp and the recommendations made by the different INIDEP programs are not respected, decisions regarding the opening and closing of the closed area are subject to the discretion of the Federal Fisheries Council.

The stronger shrimp season takes place within the permanent closed area for the preservation of hake juveniles, whose reproductive process begins approximately at the end of September. To preserve reproductive activity, researchers have set October 1 as the deadline to allow trawling within the area.

This year it was expected that the INIDEP recommendation would finally be respected, thanks to a complicated situation in the markets of lack of sales and full storages. But a rebound in sales in recent weeks threw the possibility of ever adjusting to precautionary criteria and responsible management.

At first, the authority decided to extend the deadline to October 15 and upon a request from CaPeCa, the Council extended the possibility of fishing within the banned area for another 10 days, ending the season finally on October 25, one month after the start of the hake reproductive cycle.

From the Chamber of Freezer Vessels they argued that due to bad weather conditions they had not been able to fish in recent weeks and that they had observed a high presence of shrimp. That was enough for the Council to access the request, without asking INIDEP for technical opinion and without considering that the level of bycatch increases considerably at this time of year.

The high level of bycatch and discard during last year was recorded in video images that went viral and generated great stupor in society. "It is a scandal that we throw food into the water," said the Undersecretary of Fisheries, precisely at the FAO conference on bycatch, held last month at INIDEP; but on Thursday of the last week he forgot that and promoted the extension of the season.

Author: Karina Fernández / Revista Puerto

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