SERNAPESCA and IFOP sign collaboration agreements for common hake fisherysustainability
January 23rd, 2024
National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service, a supervisory body, dependent on Economy Ministry, and in charge of ensuring compliance with Fisheries Law, signed a collaboration agreement with Fisheries Development Institute, a non-profit private law corporation. , dedicated to scientific research to support State decision-making regarding fishing and aquaculture.
The first agreement focuses on common hake fishery sustainability, a strategic hydrobiological resource for the country, because it is endemic and because it supports thousands of families of artisanal and industrial fishermen who work on its capture to provide healthy food for the entire population.
Meanwhile, a second agreement establishes collaborative work in observing and obtaining data from industrial fishing vessels image recording devices. Thus, both institutions will be able to use this tool for monitoring and analyzing data on fishing operations, catches, possible discards and/or incidental catches of non-target species.
In this regard, Soledad Tapia, SERNAPESCA National Director, said that “technical teams enthusiasm for this collaborative work is very gratifying. Our mission is to carry out efforts aimed at optimizing inter-institutional work, especially with sectoral organizations, such as IFOP. For us, generated excellent scientific knowledge becomes a significant input to optimize our inspection procedures.”
Meanwhile, Gonzalo Pereira, IFOP Executive Director, highlighted that “these are annexes to agreements, to a framework agreement that we have had with Sernapesca since 2020 and are intended to add two types of activities linked, one to common hake and the other to use of satellite images taken in industrial ships operation, information generated in these activities development will be useful for both institutions, each in their respective roles, although we have different roles, therefore development of our activities, our professionals, always meet at different points of fishing activity, for us it is of great value that Institutions that are working on fishing activity complementary activities, can have collaboration and coordination to achieve of institutional objectives that are different, but complementary for sustainable fishing and aquaculture
The signing of agreements took place in Sernapesca National Directorate in Valparaíso ‘s offices in the presence of officials and workers, who will carry out this joint work, with a view to improving controls and providing relevant data for better administration and management of the country’s resources.
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