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The Chamber of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies approved on Tuesday in general the project to annul the Fishing Law, known colloquially as “Longueira Law”, due to the preponderance that the then Minister of Economy had in the process.
The Government, meanwhile, indicated that it will go to the Constitutional Court to have the initiative declared unconstitutional.
In this regard, Fishing Industry Association (Asipes) pointed out that the eventual annulment of the Fisheries Law “is a setback in respect of the current institutional framework” and that it is “a new step in the spirit of the Parliament of incorporate attributions in their work and that opens the door to, probably, extend this type of initiative to other economic sectors ”.
“(…) This is of the greatest gravity “said Macarena Cepeda Godoy, president of the Association of Fisheries Industries.
The directive commented that today the industrial fishing activity is sustaining the employment and income of thousands of families, employing the services of “hundreds of small and medium-sized companies and receiving raw materials from a huge number of artisanal fishing suppliers.”
“But what we hear today in the Chamber of Deputies shows us that there is a profound ignorance, outright falsehoods and slogans that lack reality “Asipes added.
Cepeda greatly regretted the arguments raised by the deputies regarding the “alleged overexploitation of industrial fishing resources, the lack of access to fish by the artisanal sector, the supposed private ownership of the resources of the sea and the advantages of the industrial sector over and above the artisan, ”he said.
In his opinion, these arguments “demonstrate a total and complete ignorance of the national fishing reality ”.
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