Argentina: The Federal Fisheries set catch targets for the main species for 2025

Minutes 29 of the Federal Fisheries Council will be the last of the year. With the quota holding period renewed for another fifteen years and the new values of exploitation rights established, there was time to take note of the status of several of the main commercial species and the maximum catches were established based on the recommendations made by INIDEP for king crab, hubbsi hake, hoki, black hake and pollock. For pollock, the same precautionary values had to be maintained due to the manifest impossibility of evaluating it either through campaigns or observers. On the other hand, the tolerance of 20% of shrimp bycatch in fresh fishing vessels was confirmed and the low coverage of sampling in the squid fleet through observers on board was warned about. For the southern stock, the CMP was increased by 20 thousand tons for next year, going from 319 thousand tons in 2024 to 339 thousand for 2025. The minutes do not provide data on the biological indices that allowed this ...