Member of Parliament Ramírez defends the Law of Fraccionamiento and refuses to suspend processing after error of Undersecretary of Fisheries

The controversial draft Fisheries Law is stalled after the error of the figure in the quota of hake for the industrial sector. Critics of the mistake soon filled the parliamentarians, who quickly pointed to the responsibility of the Undersecretary of Fisheries, Julio Salas, who was in charge of the presentation before Congress. Faced with the pressure for the resignation of the fishing authority, the Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grau, defended t…

Despite being at the center of the controversy over the scandal of the delivery of erroneous figures on the capture of common hake from the industrial sector during the processing of the fractionation law, the Undersecretary of Fisheries, Julio Salas, did not attend the Fisheries Commission of the Chamber of Deputies this Monday. [...] The government entrance continues to evade guilt for scandal of the Fraccionation Law was first published in IN…

Hernán Cortés, spokesman for artisanal fishing, criticized PacificBlu's statements and defended the fractionation project, calling it transparent and fair. He pointed out the historical privileges of the industrial sector, protected by the questioned Longueira Law.

In conversation with CNN Chile Radio, Matías Ramírez, a member of the Communist Party and chairman of the Committee on Fisheries, Agriculture and Maritime Interests of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies, addressed the recent technical error of the Undersecretary of Fisheries in the processing of the Fraccionamiento Law, and the impact of this controversy on the legislative debate. Despite the error, which he recognized as “inexcusable”, Ramíre…

Rodrigo A. Longa Teran Political Scientist and Public Administrator Latin American Technological University In a serious democracy, the information the Executive branch provides to Congress cannot be ambiguous, much less false. However, in Chile, we have dangerously crossed that line. This week, the Undersecretary of Fisheries, Julio Salas, submitted an erroneous or false figure to the Joint Committee in Congress during the processing of the con…