Factory vessels. (Photo: Asipes)
Industrial sector seeks to make clarify fishing operations
CHILE
Wednesday, November 25, 2015, 03:10 (GMT + 9)
Representatives of the Association of Fishing Industrialists (ASIPES) met with SERNAPESCA national director, Jose Miguel Burgos, to show him a programme to update the release of information on fishing landings in the Biobio Region.
This is the "Modernization Programme to Raw Material Reception System and Access to Fisheries Information Online", which will make it possible, via the Internet, to publicly know data from the industrial fleet operation, vessel captures, fishing landings and raw material reception, whether it is its own or from artisanal suppliers.
Luis Felipe Moncada, ASIPES president, explained that this is a control plan and access to public information on industrial fishermen’s operation, which will enable the sector to "advance as to transparency and streamline processes for them to be adapted to a modern fishing industry and in tune with the best practices available in the world fisheries industry."
This programme will be mandatory for member companies associated to ASIPES and other firms from the central-southern zone will also join voluntarily, which would make it possible to strictly monitor about 90 per cent of industrial landings in the Biobio Region.
This program will work in four key areas:
- It will provide public access, in real time, to the satellite location of the fishing fleet of companies associated to ASIPES. This will make it possible to know the operation zone, areas where fishing activities are performed and the location of the vessels.
- It will make it possible to know the daily fish catches of each vessel of the industrial fishing fleet.
- It will provide information on the total landings made by industrial boats and the entire fleet of third parties (artisanal suppliers) and the destinations of the raw material. The platform seeks to detail the actual landings certified per company, detailed per volume (tonnage) and main species, distinguishing between landings of the own fleet and purchase from third parties. Thanks to this section it may keep track of the loaded products daily, as well as the accumulated volume per season and throughout the year.
- It will make access to information on the reception of raw material from plants of the firms associated to ASIPES. The 100 per cent of the products received will be uploaded to the platform online, whether they come from its own ships and/or other suppliers like artisanal fishermen or intermediaries, which will make it possible to buy what has been landed from the fleet with what has actually been received by the plants.
ASIPES emphasized that the platform emulates the operational systems of European companies, where the law requires transparent processes in this way.
"We intend to make this information voluntarily available for the authority and every citizen because we believe it is important to assume that the new industrial fishing cycle is real. We are the first who are committed to the conservation of the fishing heritage by halting illegal fishing mafia and we want to set precedents in areas of good practice to improve the fishing standard, not only industrial but global fishing," stressed Moncada.
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