The National Commissioner of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Raúl Elenes Angulo, acknowledged the commitment to sustainable fishing of the Mexican tuna fleet and its certification by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
"We are pleased with the certification, which requires that most of the fisheries in the country circulate," said the director of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER).
During the first Extraordinary Meeting of the Technical Committee of the Research Trust for the Development of the Program for the Use of Tuna and the Protection of Dolphins and Other Protected Aquatic Species (FIDEMAR), the head of the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA) was named president of Council.
Mexican tuna fleet.
"For the CONAPESCA, and in general for the fisheries sector, the proper functioning of the work developed by FIDEMAR is of great importance, because it allows the sector to have scientific data that contribute to sustain decision-making in the update of the national regulatory framework on fisheries ", explained Raúl Elenes.
From the Mexican Foundation for the Preservation of Marine Fauna A.C., Carlos Velázquez Osuna acknowledged the support and commitment of the Government of Mexico with the development of the activity in a sustainable manner.
For his part, the administrator of the FIDEMAR, Armando Diaz Guzman, emphasized that the trust will continue to support the tuna, shrimp and longline programs for the capture of sharks with onboard observers, as established by the official rules of fisheries in Mexico.
The trust relevance, he said, lies in Mexico's international compliance as a member country of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and the Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program (AIDCP), since through the FIDEMAR attention is given to the resolutions and recommendations issued by both agencies, which establish measures for the conservation, management and sustainable use of tuna populations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
In the formal ceremony, the Technical Committee recognized as substitute president Bernardino Jesús Muñoz Reséndez, general director of Planning, Programming and Evaluation of CONAPESCA.
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