Fishing Fee Bill in Focus at Heated Meeting in Edinburgh House

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The Prime Minister sat down for answers at a truly heated meeting in the Edinborgarhús in Ísafjörður this evening. The meeting was well attended and the Minister of Industry's fishing fee bill was the focus. The Social Democratic Party called the meeting with both Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir and Örna Lára Jónasdóttir, the party's MP in the Northwest constituency. The advertisement said: open conversation, direct and without intermediari…

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The Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grau, referred to the legislative advances in the draft Law on Fraccionamiento, which was recently approved in the Chamber of Deputies and which seeks a more equitable distribution of fisheries resources. In conversation with Radio Duna, Grau explained that the initiative seeks to correct the imbalances generated by the current Law on Fisheries, known as the Longueira Law. “The fractionation what decides is that …

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Regarding the economic impact of the initiative, the owner of the Economy portfolio stressed that “it achieved a very important change that when one takes all the fisheries and puts a value on it, we are talking about 160 million dollars.

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In what was missing we talked with the Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grau, about the controversial law that reforms the distribution of fishing quotas in Chile. The initiative, which was approved with broad support in Congress and is ready for promulgation, redefines the catch percentages between artisanal and industrial fishing. Despite legislative support, the new regulation has generated a strong rejection by the industrial sector, which accus…