The Senate approved the report of the Mixed Commission on the Law of Fishing subdivision after the previous support of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies. This step ends the legislative processing of the project, which is now dispatched for promulgation as a law.

the initiative complied with the emergency of immediate discussion issued by the president’s government Gabriel Boric. The lower house supported the report on Tuesday, and this Wednesday the Senate ratified the proposal after almost two hours of debate.

The last significant obstacle was the distribution of hake between the regions of Coquimbo and Los Lagos. The solution establishes a 45% for the artisanal sector and 55% for the industrial but only if the authorized annual global capture does not exceed 35,020 tons.

Controversy and Rectification in Hake Share

Recall that the initial discussion about hake faced complications after the Undersecretary of Fisheries,Julio Salas deliver erroneous data during processing. This forced the Government to modify the initial proposal, which allocated 52% to the artisanal sector and 48% to the industrial.

The change in the quota motivated the company Pacific Blu to announce its closure, although it then reversed the measure. Other aspects of the report include settings in the kissing fee, gradual for reineta, Spanish sardine fractionation and anchovy of the north, and a patent on catches in the Chilean exclusive economic zone.

Some sectors of the ruling party in the lower house questioned the government to enter a veto and replace the original hake share. The senator Paulina vodanovic (PS) announced a trade for the Executive to compensate with measures to readjust.

the applicable subdivision will be 45% for the artisanal fishing sector and 55% for the industrial fishing sector.

Approved Fractionation:

1. Anchovy In the maritime area included in the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo, the capture fractionation, will be established within the ranges of 85% to 55% for the artisanal fishing sector and 15% to 45% for the industrial fishing sector, with an initial percentage of 55% for the artisanal sector and 45% for the industrial sector. The annual adjustments within these ranges will be governed by the following rules: a) If the industrial sector does not meet the effective capture assigned in the previous year, the fraction destined to the artisanal fishing sector will increase by 10 percentage points per year. b) If the industrial sector reaches an annual effective capture of its allocation, it may maintain its initial percentage or increase it up to 10 percentage points per year.

2. Sardine Spanish in the maritime area included in the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama and Coquimbo, the capture fractionation, will be established within the ranges of 85% to 55% for the artisanal fishing sector and 15% to 45% for the industrial fishing sector, with an initial percentage of 55% for the artisanal sector and 45% for the industrial sector. The annual adjustments within these ranges will be governed by the following rules: a) If the industrial sector does not meet the effective capture assigned in the previous year, the fraction destined to the artisanal fishing sector will increase by 10 percentage points per year. b) If the industrial sector does not meet the effective capture assigned in the previous year, the fraction destined to the artisanal fishing sector will increase by 10 percentage points per year.

3. Hake Common in the maritime area between the regions of Coquimbo, Valparaíso, of the General Liberator Bernardo O’Higgins, of the Maule, of Ñuble, of the Biobí The applicable subdivision will be 45% for the artisanal fishing sector and 55% for the industrial fishing sector. b) In the event that the global capture quota set for a year is exceeding 35,020 tons, the excess will entirely go to the artisanal fraction. The above, with a cap of 50% for each sector.

4. The determination of the Global Reineta capture fee must maintain or take fishery to the maximum sustained yield. However,the annual global capture fee must consider an annual variation not exceeding 5% compared to the capture fee of the previous year.

Reactions

the senator Jaime Coloma He questioned that “I don’t think there is a precedent of a financial report that the Treasury Commission did not know (…) that is completely irregular.” His peers claimed breach in process for fiscal norms.

While the Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grau he rejected criticism. “It was explained very clearly because it was a patent and not a tax (…) there was no problem and the procedures were met,” he said.

The senator Gastón Saavedra (PS) valued the new law. “Indeed, a majority distribution for the artisanal fishing sector and a fair distribution for the industry will be law,” he said.

Simultaneously occurring, in the Chamber of Deputies, warnings about possible demands for compensation arose, considering the “Expropiating” project.

Future Challenges After new Fishing Fractionation

Saavedra proposed “a kind of royalty” for communes with industrial complexes “to achieve greater territorial equity,” he said. He also asked to declare the aid as a migratory species.

For its part, the deputy María Candelaria Acevedo (PC) stressed that “We have taken a fundamental step to end the corrupt Longueira law transferring a significant percentage of the global quota towards the artisanal sector. ” He criticized the industry.” Camanchaca asking for compensation seems unusual, “he said.

The legislator emphasized the unique dynamics of Bío Bío,where artisanal industry and fishing coexist. “What we have sought is a healthy coexistence (…) and I think we have achieved it,” he said. He also proposed to strengthen human consumption through fishing SMEs and improve technology in artisanal vessels.

he mentioned the pending debt that “I cannot lose sight of the social platform, long -standing longing for artisanal fishermen,” he closed.

Approved✅ | The Senate Chamber approved the report of the Mixed Commission, constituted to resolve the divergences raised between the two cameras during the processing of the bill that sets a new fractionation between the artisanal and industrial fishing sector.

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