SONAPESCAL: 'Government opens the door to 150 presumably illegal fishing vessels'
PERU Thursday, May 07, 2026, 06:00 (GMT + 9)
A few weeks before the end of its term, PRODUCE issued a regulation that, in practice, increases the fishing effort on resources that have already been exploited to their maximum capacity since 2021. This raises a key question: are vessels that did not exist or were illegally built being validated? The president of the National Society of Artisanal Fishing of Peru (SONAPESCAL), Elsa Vega, denounced that amidst an electoral climate that keeps all Peruvians distracted, on April 29, the Government published Supreme Decree No. 005-2026-PRODUCE. This decree incorporates a "provision" into the FULL STORY
