Review of the prawn season in Argentina by INIDEP experts

We spoke with the person in charge of the Shrimp Program, Paula Moriondo Danovaro and the Chief Observer Juan de la Garza, a collaborator with vast experience in the fishery, about the outstanding aspects of the 2021 season: quality, good practices, increased fishing effort , observer coverage and the lack of data from Rawson's season that generates a five-month gap in the investigation of the resource. The need for a cultural change is presented as imperative, but knowing that it is not a situation of immediate resolution, they celebrate the steps taken with the fresh sector, which little by little begins to walk the same path of joint work as twenty years back the freezers started. They highlight the active participation of the fisheries administration in the management of the resource and warn about the need to take care of the sustainability of the resource so that it can continue to give 200 thousand tons per year. Last month, the person in charge of the Prawn Program spoke ...