The project provides for mid-water fishing and the current 80% and 20% fractionation, for the artisanal and industrial sectors respectively

New bill to allow the replenishment of the 'jibia' catch (giant squid - dosidicus gigas)

CHILE
Friday, October 04, 2024, 00:10 (GMT + 9)

A bill to allow the replenishment of the 'jibia' catch in the Biobío Region was introduced yesterday by Senators Gastón Saavedra (PS), Enrique Van Rysselberghe (UDI) and Sebastián Keitel (Evópoli) with mid-water fishing and the current 80% and 20% splitting, for the artisanal and industrial sectors respectively.

The senators were accompanied in the process by leaders of the Embarcados and Planta sector of Pacific Blu, Landes, Fesip, Blumar Frozen Fish Union, Fishing Captains Union, as well as the governor of the Biobío Region, Rodrigo Díaz, the Chamber of Production and Commerce of the region, CPC represented by its general manager Oscar Ruf.

Juan Carlos González, president of the Captains Union, who accompanied the senators in the process, shared that Gastón Saavedra explained that what this project seeks is to strengthen an industrial activity that is proven and generates a lot of work and that the Cuttlefish Law was a legislative error and it is time to amend it considering the delicate situation of the region in terms of employment.

González said that what was done by the aforementioned senators generates encouragement and hope. “The importance of this is that recovering the cuttlefish for the region will generate jobs in the artisanal and industrial sector. Let us remember that the Cuttlefish Law left many fishermen unable to go out to operate in Talcahuano and Coronel, the boats and processing lines that paralyzed the industry. This can be reversed at a time when we need it. We support this initiative.”

He indicated: “that the initiative also shows that not all common sense has been lost, knowing that nonsense was breathed yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies (in reference to the bill of fractionation). There is hope", he concluded. "the leaders are satisfied, even more so when it is aimed at a project that will not involve fiscal expenditure since it is only about reversing a situation, which the workers and the private sector will promote to bring our region forward."

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