What is the fractionation law that Chilean fishermen protest against?

Chilean artisanal fishermen are at war. The organizations that bring together the workers of the sea have since last Tuesday led several protests throughout the South American country to demand the advance in the Senate Finance Commission of the fractionation law, a norm that is considered as the heart of the new fishing law, which seeks to regulate the exploitation of marine resources. The demonstrations have spread from the port city of Valpar…

After two days, the San Javier Guarantee Court formalized ten of the eleven detainees in the context of this week's protests by artisanal fishermen over the vote on the Fraccionamiento Law.Particularly in San Javier, in the Maule Region, the conflict escalated to the point that during one of Wednesday's protests on Route 5 South, the defendants burned four police vehicles and injured eight Carabineros officials. Between Friday and Saturday, four…

Last March 25 began the discussion in the Finance Committee of the Senate on the reform of the Fisheries Law, a debate that has prompted a series of protests at the national level with artisanal fishermen demanding how this reform would be resulting, with an unfavourable fractionation for them and more beneficial for the industry. Senator Felipe Kast (Evopoli), who chairs the Treasury, said in Tolerance Zero that there will be reform all forms, …

The recent mobilizations of artisanal fishing organizations must raise awareness among Chilean society as a whole that this is a problem that has direct consequences for the quality of life. It requires a greater position in favor of the changes on the part of the political organizations, of workers, Chilean students, to redouble the commitment and action to achieve that the sea and its benefits cease to be in the hands of a few will allow in th…

The entry Draft fractionation law: an advance on the constitutionality of fishing legislation was first published in CIPER Chile.

In a new program of Palabra Que es Noticia, Andrea Moletto and Antonio Quinteros talked with Julio Salas, Undersecretary of Fisheries, about the project of reform to the current law of fishing and the discussion of the fractionation of the industry, in the middle of a week marked by protests of fishers. The fractionation: a key point in the reform The current Law of Fisheries faces a serious doubt in terms of validity, which has damaged the repu…