Overview
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).
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.
The following specific objectives have been set for the period between November 1st, 2021 and December 30th, 2022, in order to obtain a certifiable standard against the MSC standard at the end of the period:
- Continue to promote the adoption of a contingency plan as established in Article 13 of Resolution 7/2018 (Management Plan), based on abundance reference points, and monitor the implementation of fishery's Management Plan.
- Continue to promote the adoption, in the management measures for this fishery, of explicit short- and long-term specific objectives for the fishery management, which explicitly include care for other ecosystem components.
- Follow up discussions concerning selectivity devices in the context of Bycatch Commission created by the FFC to reduce the fishery interaction with non-target species and protected, threatened or endangered species.
- Cooperate with INIDEP in carrying out an experience with a video camera on the fishing gear in order to be able to observe the different species behaviour and contribute to design an ecologically and economically efficient selectivity system.
- Promote the regular functioning of red shrimp fishery Follow-up Commission as an appropriate forum for proposing management measures and for self-evaluation of management and research systems.
- Promote the implementation of a peer review of the fishery assessment methodology.
- Promote the participation of captains and crew in in the FIP development.
- Implement Component 1 of the FisheryProgress Social and Human Rights Policy, which has entered into force on November 2021.
FIP at a Glance
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| 21% | 46% | 32% |
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