Argentina: 12% decrease in shrimp harvest

The shrimp harvest shows a lower volume of unloading than in the last harvest, according to the official statistics of the Undersecretary of Fisheries that marks the evolution of landings of the main species until last August 3. Until that date, the fleet declared landings of 113,500 tons, when by the same date, last year they had totaled 128,893 tons, 12% less than in 2021. The irregular harvest in provincial waters of Chubut that the coastal fleet had, the greater controls on the weight of the boxes at the time of unloading in all the docks of the ports where the deep-sea freshwater fleet operates and some prolonged periods of bad weather , explain the general decline. The entire fleet that operates fresh recorded fewer landings until August 3. Those from the roadstead/ría totaled 5,684 tons, 18% less than in the same period of 2021. Coastal ships show a 21% reduction, reaching 37,518 tons The deep-sea fishermen are the segment of the fleet that registered the greatest decrease ...