The Argentina red shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) fishery is the main crustacean fishery in Argentina and one of the most important marine resources in the Southwest Atlantic. Operating freezing and ice-chilling vessels longer than 21m in length, the large fleet operating in this offshore fishery uses bottom trawling nets in Argentine federal waters (between parallels 42°S and 47°S).
The Argentine red shrimp fishery produced landings of around 80 thousand metric tons in between 2009 and 2013, surpassing the historical record in 2013 with landings above 100 thousand metric tons. In 2016, the fishery produced landings of around 180 thousand metric tons. The participation of the offshore fishery has been around 80% of red shrimp landings during the last years.
To learn more about improvement efforts, please visit CeDePesca's Argentine red shrip offshore FIP Public Report (updated biannually).
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The ultimate objective of this FIP is to achieve the fishery’s certifiable status against the MSC standard by the end of December 2024. To this purpose, the FIP has set the following specific objectives: