Abstract
Argentina’s fish and shellfish resources support several high-volume, export-oriented industrial fisheries with annual landings close to 800,000 tons. Compared to the industrial sector, which expanded greatly over the last 40 years, artisanal marine fisheries have remained insignificant in terms of catch volume and value, receiving little attention from governments despite their local importance. Argentina is a federal country with five coastal provinces, which have jurisdiction over the marine resources within 12 nautical miles from the shore and within gulfs. Since each province manages artisanal fisheries within its territorial waters, the importance assigned to them, the legal frameworks available, and their degree of application vary greatly among provinces. In a few cases, municipal governments have also been involved in generating policies for the sector, adding to the complex multilevel governance context of small-scale fisheries. This chapter reviews the main national and provincial laws and policies relevant to marine artisanal fisheries, as well as a number of cases that were litigated in court, to evaluate the extent of adherence to the principles of the SSF Guidelines in the law and in practice. We complement this review with an analysis of fishers’ knowledge about the legal instruments in use, and the perceptions of key actors involved in judicialized cases from Buenos Aires and Chubut – two provinces with a long history of artisanal fisheries. These cases illustrate the main limitations and challenges faced by the artisanal sector, revealing how far the country is from implementing the SSF Guidelines.
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In the Province of Buenos Aires “commercial fishing” includes all commercial fishing activity that is not artisanal.
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We are very grateful to the fishers, researchers, staff from governmental agencies, and other key informants, who kindly shared their views and knowledge, among them, Gustavo Lovrich (CADIC, CONICET), Darío Colautti (ILPLA, CIC-CONICET-UNLP), Enrique Morsán (CIMAS, CONICET), Daniel Omar (Popo) Millán and Enrique Barrera (MPyA, Río Negro), Sergio Umeres (SIPA, PNA), María Eugenia Rivero, and Lucrecia Bravo (SSPyAP, Santa Cruz). The names of informants involved in judicial cases and of interviewed fishers were kept confidential. Special thanks to two anonymous reviewers for their time and valuable comments. A. Cinti dedicates this work to Ana María Teyssandier. Your beautiful soul gave me the strength to not abandon this project and a powerful life lesson to carry on. As of March 2024, the newly established national government, which took office in December 2023, has been enforcing policies that the authors contend will diminish support for artisanal fisheries, thereby weakening management capacity and exacerbating vulnerability within the sector.
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Cinti, A. et al. (2024). From Legal Frameworks to Practice – Challenges for Implementing the SSF Guidelines in Argentina. In: Nakamura, J., Chuenpagdee, R., Jentoft, S. (eds) Implementation of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines . MARE Publication Series, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56716-2_15
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