Africa-Press – Angola. The period of ban on horse mackerel fishing, along the Angolan sea coast, for 2024, will be reduced from three to two months, due to the progressive reproduction of the biomass of this pelagic, announced this Tuesday, in Luanda, the National Director of Fisheries, Victor Chilamba.
According to the person responsible, the mackerel sealing period covers the months of June and July, a period in which artisanal, semi-industrial and industrial shipowners must explore other marine species to allow mackerel reproduction.
According to the national director, the measure results from recommendations made by the Integrated Management Council for Aquatic Biological Resources and the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MIN).
This advisory council, says the director, also defined the quota as 304 thousand tons as the maximum volume of fish captured for semi-industrial and industrial shipowners and that for artisanal shipowners the recommended quota was set at 186 thousand tons of fish for the seas from Angola.
As for the limit of vessels for the industrial and semi-industrial fishing segment, the technical-scientific council defined 250 boats, subdivided into 120 for small pelagics, 100 for medium-sized, 20 large-sized and 10 for other fishing gear.
Victor Chilamba said that this global quota of 500 thousand tons is slightly lower than the previous year’s figure, which was more than 600 thousand tons in all fishing segments, and the sardinella quota will drop from 200 to 120 thousand tons in 2024.
On the occasion, the director of the Planning and Statistics Study Office (GEPE) Joana Gomes, in the period 2023-2027, the Ministry will continue to develop actions with a view to ensuring sustainable, inclusive economic diversification led by the private sector, with the aim of food security.
In this regard, the official said that the fishing sector is developing a program for the sustainable exploitation of living aquatic resources and the development of sustainable aquaculture, within the framework of export diversification and import substitution.
The Consultative Council of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, attended by the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture and Forestry, respectively, Téte António and Francisco Assis, was opened by the holder of the portfolio, Cármen do Sacramento Neto, who on the occasion reiterated the blue economy commitment.
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