El Salvador: Fishermen urge a new national law on fisheries and aquaculture

The Salvadoran fisheries and aquaculture sector urges the authorities to create a new National Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture that will give good management of fishing, support more than 50,000 artisanal fishermen and register the contribution of the sector to the national economy, as the ProPesca Foundation explained yesterday. This institution also proposes that an institution be created that quantifies all the production of the sector and with this they can achieve financial benefits. “A new Law must contain direct support to the fishing sector in credits, subsidies, research, statistics. Since 2006 we do not have statistics of the sector in El Salvador; the fishermen's tasks are not registered, we have to have that statistic in the cooperatives, be it the sea, bodies of water, beaches, rivers, lakes ”, explained the president of ProPesca, Ovidio Erazo. For his part, Enrique Patiño, executive director of ProPesca, emphasized that an efficient management of fishing resources ...