Budget 2025-26: The fisheries sector faces many challenges

Fishermen are calling for a new model of governance based on decentralization, community participation and sustainable management of fisheries resources. In this context, representatives of the fishing community met on Monday with the Minister of Agro-industry, Food Security, Blue Economy and Fisheries. At the end of this exchange, Judex Rampaul, Secretary General of the Fishermen's Union, deplores that no significant progress has been made ...

National Alliance for the Defense of Artisanal Fishing: “DIPUTADAS AND DIPUTATES REJECTED FROM THE SENATE AND RESPONSE TO THE ARTESANAL FISHING” Source: Condepp April 23, 2025 The House of Deputies rejected the amendments introduced by the Senate to the new fishing division bill. With this result, support for the demands of the craft sector is confirmed and the final stage of the legislative process in mixed committee is given way. The bill alre…

The Fisheries Fraccionation Law, which seeks to replace the Longueira law, advanced to the Mixed Commission after it was approved in the Chamber of Deputies, although there is still controversy over the percentages of extraction of certain resources. Legislators María Candelaria Acevedo and Matías Ramírez, members of the Fisheries Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, valued the cross-cutting vote that the fractionation project had in its third…

The Chamber of Deputies approved by 136 votes in favour the bulk of the changes made by the Senate to the project of fishing fractionation, an initiative that generates changes to the distribution of a total of 20 fisheries, and of which modifications have been approved to 17.The remaining three, are the common hake, the sardine and the anchovy in the northern zone, which includes from the Region of Arica and Parinacota to Coquimbo.To this was a…

In a joint committee, the differences between the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will have to be resolved, concerning five matters that the said corporation modified in the second procedure and that the Chamber of the Chamber rejected, regarding the project that defines a new division between the artisanal and the industrial fishing sector.The Chamber [...] The entry Advances core of the new Law on Fisheries but it will also have mixed has b…