1. Presentation by María Onestini Centro de Estudios Ambientales
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. Capture Quotas to Be Established By:
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

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

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. Quota Design 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

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