Squid fishing is prohibited on the Argentine-Uruguayan maritime front

The Mixed Technical Commission of the Maritime Front of Argentina and Uruguay ordered a ban on squid fishing as of August 31, considering it necessary "to protect the current concentrations of juvenile specimens of the species for the 2024 extractive season." The measure was formalized through resolution 9/2023, published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette and the Official Gazette of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. The resolution prohibits "directed fishing for the squid species (Illex argentinus) in the Common Fishing Zone as of August 31, 2023", and considers any violation of the rule as "a serious non-compliance", whose penalty does not apply. specifies. The ban is part of measures usually taken for seasonal reasons, if one takes into account that there was a similar one in August last year. In this case, the ban on squid fishing was in force from ...