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Tradable Quotas in the Argentine Fisheries System: Opportunities, Prospects and Challenges

This presentation by María Onestini from the Centro de Estudios Ambientales explores the negative impacts of tradable quotas on fisheries resources and the socio-economic structure in Argentina. It discusses the legal framework for individual transferable quotas (ITQs) and the quota management system, as well as the challenges and issues in quota design and implementation.

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Tradable Quotas in the Argentine Fisheries System: Opportunities, Prospects and Challenges

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  1. Tradable Quotas in the Argentine Fisheries System: Opportunities, Prospects and Challenges Presentation by María Onestini Centro de Estudios Ambientales

  2. Negative Impacts on Fisheries Resources and Socio-economic Structure • Some verifiable impacts are: • Degradation of fisheries biomass and near collapse for some species • Variations in fishing effort • Ecological degradation • Increased costs for fisheries regulation and control; (cont’d)

  3. Negative Impacts on Resources and Socio-economic Structure of Fisheries Sector • Some verifiable impacts are: • Increased operation costs • Augmenting fiscal costs and subsidies • Corruption practices; and • Non diversification of catches

  4. Legal Framework for Individual Transferable Quotas In Argentina National fisheries law of 1997 establishes itqs

  5. National Fisheries Law Law’s objectives are summarized in article 1 and can be divided into three categories • Environmental • Productive • Labor related

  6. Argentina’s National Fisheries Law Previously listed objectives interlinked to itqs

  7. Quota Management System Quotas regulate access Quotas do not regulate ownership

  8. Species, Vessels, Fishing zones, and Type of vessel All quotas are temporary Restrictions so that no one company or holding should be granted the total TAC of any one species Capture Quotas to Be Established By:

  9. Employment of argentine nationals, Investments in the country, Previous fishing records, amounts captured as well as sanctions, (catch history) Other Criteria in the Allocation of Quotas

  10. Transferability Factors • Capture quotas would be totally or partially transferable through transference fees payments • Transference of quotas will not be allowed between different types of ships

  11. Definition of rights, Allocation of these rights, Setting of a market for secondary trading of quotas, Natural resource rent extraction, Management cost recovery, as well as Abatement of negative social impacts possible Quota Design

  12. Issues and Challenges in Quota Design • Concentration of market • Resistance by industry and other actors • Social compensation measures • Monitoring capacity

  13. Quota System’s Negative Impacts • Encouraging dumping by-catch or fish of poor quality or size/high grading; • Data fouling; • Quota busting and poaching

  14. Challenges • If establishing quotas derives from different goals (social and economic development as well as environmental sustainable use) • Then challenge implies not only change in exploitation mode but also • In establishing ancillary policies

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