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In a few days, dredging will resume in the port of Rawson in the province of Chubut. The Secretary of Fisheries of that province confirmed it, in the same way that he asserted that there will be new fishing permits.
Gabriel Aguilar, head of Chubut fishing, released the news stating that in days to come they will continue with the dredging works that had been paralyzed at the suggestion of a consulting firm on environmental issues.
The dredger that was carrying out the tasks has been inactive since October 2022, which, according to what PESCARE learned, is generating very significant costs that the province of Chubut pays.
The Chubut Secretary publicly stated that “the minister in charge of port infrastructure, Gustavo Aguilera, has agreed on a date for the start of dredging. Although we still do not have the exact date, we have managed to reach a consensus with all the organizations involved and we have clarified their doubts regarding possible impacts on the environment”, he commented before some voices who had criticized the tasks that were being carried out in Rawson Harbor in reference to dredging”.
According to the reports received by the Rawson administration, there are no fishing resources in the place, nor are there sharks or sea turtles (which was one of the issues in question), so the dragline would only remove sediments from the bottom, for which in the next few days the date will be set to restart the work.
The firm SUDELCO SA is the one who was awarded the works, making an investment of 559 million step and for which, as stated in the bidding documents, in 270 days the agreement would have to be completed, but the adjustments and cost overruns Due to the high inflationary indexes, the continuation of the works has been modified.
On the other hand, Aguilar himself stated that, at the express request of Governor Mariano Arcioni, he summoned the representatives of the fishing sector (business chambers and unions that are home to nearly nine thousand workers) to inform them about how the controversial issue of fishing permits continues. provincial.
"This is the second meeting, in the first we had promised to call on all fishing plants that meet the requirements established by law, in this case article 34 paragraph 1.1 in section A, B and C. This The law talks about certain requirements to be able to access the benefits of the three new fishing permits that it grants. The fishing law does not grant these permits, it is clearly an authorization that the law gave to the Executive Branch through the Fisheries Secretariat to assign permits to the plants," Aguilar told some media.
It is worth noting that the controversial Chubut fishing law was sanctioned on December 22 where there were 17 positive votes, 4 negative and 2 abstentions, after the impulse given by the current provincial legislator and former mayor of Puerto Madryn Carlos Eliceche, pointing , according to his arguments, to maintain and improve the amount of employment in the fishing activity, emphasizing that he received the support of all the actors in the fishing sector of the province of Chubut.
It is also worth noting that the new provincial regulations granted seven fishing permits -3 for the yellow fleet, 3 for the artisanal fleet and 1 Vacopa (varied Patagonian coastal)-. |
