Mexico: All agreement on modernize rules on fisheries and aquaculture

Federal legislators from the various party factions, members of the Committee on Fisheries of the Chamber of Deputies, to meet with the authorities of CONAPESCA acknowledged their willingness to work with the Legislature and expressed their interest to modernize and adapt laws that support or promote development of the national fisheries.

In order to discuss issues of fisheries and aquaculture in several regions of the country, raised by lawmakers, a meeting of the Committee on Fisheries of the Chamber of Deputies CONAPESCA authorities in Mazatlan took place.

The head of the National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA) and managers of this sectorizada institution in the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) explained to the legislators the characteristics of operation of the different programs derived of the five strategic areas of public policy on fisheries and aquaculture in the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Aguilar Sánchez, said that in compliance with the instruction of Secretary José Calzada, an effort to optimize the financial resources available, seeking budgets and programs reach the most needy fishermen in the country, is made while increases the productivity and generation of foods that contribute to the food sovereignty of Mexico. “The resource that is invested in the fisheries and aquaculture sector, is a resource highly profitable,” said Aguilar Sanchez.

Led by the chairman of the Fisheries Committee of the Upper House, Prospero Manuel Ibarra Otero, members of the various party factions, representatives of the states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Chiapas, Campeche, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Michoacan and Tabasco, expressed satisfaction with the meeting, “as representatives of one of the most important sectors of the country.”

Said the legislator Prospero Ibarra that since he assumed the presidency of the Committee on Fisheries of the Chamber of Deputies a few months ago, “a situation complicated by budget cuts live, but we have found in the team of CONAPESCA a great layout to work with the Legislature and deal with that situation so that the sector will slow and move on. ”

He added that for the Members of the Committee on Fisheries has been a long-awaited visit by the importance of aquaculture fishing industry in our country, for what it represents, what we can achieve, and what are the expectations we have as a nation, in which our President Enrique Peña Nieto, has called us to do everything necessary to strengthen the fisheries and aquaculture sector.

He stressed that the Committee on Fisheries of the House he heads, is composed of deputies “committed and determined to push in this Legislature the modernization of the legal framework of national fisheries and aquaculture, and will continue working with the CONAPESCA for the sector continues to grow, that does not pass a legislature without doing major reforms and legislative work pending for so long and we do together for the benefit of the fisherman “.

As part of their visit, the legislators met facilities Monitoring Centre and Satellite Control CONAPESCA, where continuous monitoring is given to more than two thousand large vessels, to monitor compliance of fishing activity and the safeguarding of life human at sea.

They participated in the meeting secretaries of the Committee on Fisheries, Efrain Arellano Núñez, Rosa Elena Millan Well, Antonio Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, Candelario Perez Alvarado and Diego Valente Valera sources; also the members of the Commission Fidel Calderon Torreblanca, Moisés Guerra Mota del Carmen Marquez Nelly Zapata, Jisela Paes Martinez, and the Technical Secretary of the Committee on Fisheries, Joel Salvador Coronado Paredes, among others.

Source: SAGARPA