350 Fish as feed inputs for aquaculture – Practices, sustainability and implications
- El Fondo de Desarrollo Pesquero (FONDEPES) promotes, executes and
supports technically, economically and financially the development of marine
and continental artisanal fishing activity and aquaculture, mainly with regard to
aspects of basic infrastructure. It manages the Fund for Aquaculture Research
(FIA). This organization is currently under organizational restructuring and is
being amalgamated with the Centro de Entrenamiento Pesquero (CEP-Paita). - El Centro de Entrenamiento Pesquero (CEP-Paita) designs and executes actions
to improve the training and personal development of fishery sector workers,
especially the artisanal fishers. CEP-Paita contributes to the improvement of the
socio-economic status of the artisanal fishers in the country. - The Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP) evaluates the natural resources
of the Peruvian Amazonia and its productive potential. It promotes the application
of the results of the scientific and technological research and proposes procedures
and norms to the relevant institutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.
This institution advises public-sector organizations on policy development and
informs them of their research plans.
The interaction between the Vice-ministry of Fishery and the decentralized
institutions is close. For instance, IMARPE coordinates with the VMP so that it can
regulate the closed season periods based on its investigations of available biomass,
while ITP advises the VMP in matters of surveillance and sanitary control of the
seafood production chain and in promoting fish consumption at the national level.
IMARPE and ITP also combine their work, because the information on the marine
species obtained by IMARPE is used by ITP in developing new alternatives for human
consumption.
6.3.2 Coordination among government levels
Since 2003, Peru has been executing institutional decentralization, transferring national
government functions to the regional governments. The functions to be assumed by the
regional governments include:- developing plans for fishery and aquaculture policies in their jurisdictions;
- administering and supervising the activities and fishery services under their
jurisdictions; - executing control actions and surveillance;
- administering the use of the landing services infrastructure and fishing processing
within their jurisdictions; and - supervising the execution of norms related to the artisanal fishery and its
exclusivity within the five-mile coastal waters zone.
At present, PRODUCE is delegating the implementation of some of the national
recurrent fisheries management tasks to its Regional Directions.
Coordination also exists among local governmental authorities charged with the
execution of the tasks related to the sanitary control of fish products in local markets,
the National Society of Fisheries (SNP) and trawling owners' associations. SNP is a
private organization that includes members from most of the fish companies of Peru.
SNP associates are fishmeal and canning company representatives, as well as the cold
store operators, trawlers, shrimp farming company representatives and some capital
goods and services suppliers. SNP maintains a close relationship with the VMP in
formulating fisheries development policies. The trawling owners' associations were
created mainly to negotiate landing prices with the fishmeal industry or with the crew,
who are strongly supported by the labour unions.