The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Julian Dominguezheaded this Wednesday a meeting with representatives of fishing chambers in Mar del Plata, where he highlighted the importance of the sector on the international agenda and guaranteed the instruments and infrastructure by the State to promote the marketing of production.
“All the food that Argentina produces has a place to be placed. We are witnessing a crisis of demand and production and fishing is not exempt from thisso we are going to guarantee the instruments and the infrastructure to guarantee the commercialization”he assured, within the framework of the so-called Fishing Roundtable, an area of public-private articulation where the problems of the area are analyzed.
Domínguez was accompanied, among others, by the president of the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa), Diana Guillenand the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Charles Liberman.
The new director of Senasa’s Buenos Aires South Regional Center, V.Ictor Baldovino.
During this new meeting of the Fishing Tablewhich was held at the headquarters of the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, the minister assured that “there is an enormous commitment to take care of the species that exist in our sea and our resources.”
FISHING TABLE IN MAR DEL PLATA?
Minister Julián Domínguez appointed Manuel Baldovino as the new director of the Senasa South Buenos Aires Regional Center. This is a demand from the sector to generate more institutionality within the organization. pic.twitter.com/MGKlpuzM7Q
— Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (@AgriculturaAR) May 12, 2022
He stated that there is “a very clearly defined strategy from the Undersecretary of Fisheries” in this regard, and also stressed that this work is part of “the reaffirmation of the exercise of sovereignty over our sea.”
“We have a historical problem of colonial encroachment on our Malvinas Islands. Sometimes that creates an obstacle for us after mile 200, but we reaffirm the vocation that we are a country that wants to continue growing in its fishing industry“, he indicated.
Liberman, for his part, highlighted the policies deployed by the Government to overcome problems in the export of hake to Brazil and shrimp to China.
Present at the meeting were representatives of the Chamber of the Argentine Fishing Industry, the Council of Argentine Fishing Companies, the Association of Fishing Vessels, the Chamber of Fishing Exporters, and the Mar del Plata Regional Port Consortium.
It was the second meeting of the Fisheries Board since Domínguez’s arrival at the Ministry, in line with the portfolio’s intention to consolidate the space as a meeting place to periodically discuss the needs of the sector.
