The Governments of Argentina and Venezuela settled several bilateral fishery cooperation agreements in Buenos Aires in the framework of the visit of the new Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro.
The agreements, signed by the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina, Norberto Yauhar, and the Minister of the Popular Power for Agriculture and Lands of Venezuela, Ivan Gil, include the development of policies for the management and conservation of fishery resources.
Both parties intend to promote cooperation in the areas of marine fisheries, aquaculture, aquatic products processing and management and fisheries resource conservation. To do this, they expect to implement cooperation programmes of mutual interest to strengthen relations between the relevant authorities and provide assistance to Argentinean and Venezuelan companies.
“Venezuela will use the fisheries policy that Argentina has as the basis on the care, quality, delivery and processing issues of fish farming and aquaculture,” stated Yauhar.
“Both parties will work on development projects through Inidep, on the protection of Venezuelan fisheries and the provision of control and monitoring elements on which Argentina is one of the top countries in the world, as well as the Satellite Monitoring Systems and control systems on how much fish is consumed, the development of control systems,” added the Argentinean minister.
Meanwhile, Gil stated that the satellite monitoring system is the angle of the system to control the fleet movements.
Fishermen in Venezuela are mainly engaged in capturing three species: pepitona or turkey wing ark clam (Arca zebra), sardine (Sardinella aurita) and tuna (Thunnus spp.)
In this country there are many artisanal fishermen and for some years there has been evidence of a marked growth of shrimp farming.
According to the available figures, in 2012 Argentina sent 5,858 tonnes of fishing resources — mainly hake (Merluccius Hubbsi) and squid (Illex argentinus) to the Venezuelan market for USD 17.4 million, Pescare reported.
The authorities from both countries discussed the possibility of building tuna vessels in local shipyards, with the participation of the naval industry of Mar del Plata and its entire chain value.
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