CLOSE

LAWYERS

SEARCH BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER

SEE ALL LAWYERS
CLOSE

PRACTICE AREAS

Fishery Alert – February 2020

ALERT - FISHERY

Various provisions on extraction and processing contained in Regulations of the General Fisheries Act and in Regulations of the Maximum Catch Limits per Vessel Act are modified

By means of Supreme Decree No. 004-2020-PRODUCE, published today, Friday, February 28, 2020, various provisions related to the processing extraction activity contained in the Regulations of the General Fisheries Act (DS No. 012-2001-PE) and in the Regulations of the Maximum Catch Limits per Vessel Act (DS No. 021-2008-PRODUCE) were amended. Likewise, in the same Supreme Decree, amendments were made to the Hake Fisheries Management Regulation (DS No. 016-2003-PRODUCE) and to provisions on the registration of social organizations of fishermen and artisanal fisheries processors.

The most prominent issues that the decree amends are:

  • Change of ownership of the fishing permit
  • Fleet increase authorization
  • Wrecked vessels with total loss
  • Granting of fishing permit for foreign flag vessels
  • Installation authorization and plant operation license
  • Change of ownership of the operating license
  • Conditions for plant operation
  • Association authorization or definitive incorporation of the PMCE
  • Nomination and Temporary Association of the LMCE”