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Pesca Internacional, ISSN 1699-3691 EDITORIAL ¿Es el hombre la única especie Is mankind the only optional species? prescindible? “Of all the components of the ecosystem, humans are the only ones we know to be completely optional”. This thought by the ecologist, Herb e todos los componentes de un ecosistema, el hombre Hammond, has led the founder and ex-Chairman of Greenpeace, Patrick es el único realmente prescindible”. Este pensamiento, Moore, to develop a whole theory on confronting what he terms as en boca del ecologista Herb Hammond, ha llevado al “21st century environmentalism” with “eco-extremism”, represented by fundador y ex presidente de Greenpeace, Patrick his companions of old. Moore a desarrollar toda una teoria en la que confron- “Dta lo que él llama “medioambientalismo del siglo XXI” con el “eco-extre- Moore’s thoughts give an objective explanation for the fact that Greenpeace has moved from being received with open arms in Vigo to mismo” representado por sus anteriores compañeros. being criticized by all the institutions, official bodies and associations Las reflexiones de Moore ofrecen una explicación objetiva para el hecho representing the townsfolk. The seed sown in the 1970’s and 1980’s de que Greenpeace haya pasado de ser recibida con los brazos abiertos by the ecologists has borne fruit in a considerable part of the world, en Vigo a ser criticada por todas las instituciones, organismos y asocia- and the result is a new way of dealing with the exploitation of natural ciones representativas de la ciudadanía. La semilla sembrada en las resources following sustainable criterion. The industry, scientists, décadas de 1970 y 1980 por los ecologistas ha dado frutos en una parte administrations and many ecologists have grown aware of this new importante del mundo, y el resultado es una nueva forma de afrontar la framework and respond accordingly. explotación de los recursos naturales bajo criterios de sostenibilidad. La In the fishing world, it is nowadays unthinkable for fisheries industria, los científicos, las Administraciones y muchos ecologistas se management to exist without an environmentalist outlook. Any political han percatado de este nuevo marco y obran en consecuencia. decision has to be based on strict scientific reports and on the En el ámbito pesquero, hoy es inconcebible la gestión de pesquerías sin la precautionary approach imposed by the FAO, which is what determines óptica medioambiental. Cualquier decisión política debe estar basada en where the weight of proof is applied. In this dialectic process, rigurosos informes científicos y en el enfoque de precaución impuesto por management is the result of considering the consequences, on the one la FAO, que es el que determina donde se aplica la carga de la prueba. En hand for the environment and, on the other, for mankind (socio- este proceso dialéctico, la gestión es el resultado de ponderar consecuen- economic consequences, food requirements …). Following continuous cias, por una parte para el medio ambiente, y, por el otro, para la humani- and successive divisions and internal processes involving criticism, in dad (consecuencias socioeconómicas, necesidades de alimento...). Greenpeace the more orthodox have remained, the division that makes Tras continuas y sucesivas escisiones y procesos internos de crítica, en man “optional”, putting forward complete prohibitions where science Greenpeace ha quedado el residuo más ortodoxo, ese que hace al hom- itself dictates that regulations and control are to be imposed, as bre “prescindible” y que propone prohibiciones absolutas donde la propia occurs in the case of bottom trawling. ciencia dice que lo que se impone es la regulación y la vigilancia, como Events in Vigo have not been isolated. Greenpeace has had to face es el caso del arrastre de fondo. similar situations in Holland (with the beam trawlers), in Iceland (with Lo sucedido en Vigo no ha sido un hecho aislado. Greenpeace se ha teni- the longliners), the Faroe Islands, the Scots port of Fraserburgh … All do que enfrentar a situaciones parecidas en Holanda (con los tangoneros) these are States that comply with the regulations, where there is an en Islandia (con palangreros), en las Islas Faroe, en el puerto escocés de awareness of ecology where, furthermore, they have been the first to Fraseburg... Son todos ellos Estados que cumplen las normas, donde exis- accept this new framework outlined here. We are, in fact, talking about te conciencia ecológica y que, además, han sido de los primeros en acep- the most highly controlled fleets in the world, because they have been tar ese nuevo marco que describimos. Son, en definitiva, las flotas más con- the first to accept this control, the result of a debate started up by troladas del mundo porque han sido las primeras en aceptar ese control, honest, well-intentioned ecologists who, in the latter half of the last fruto del debate iniciado por los ecologistas honestos y bienintencionados century, were avant-garde and progressive-minded. que en la segunda mitad del siglo pasado fueron vanguardia y progreso. Nowadays, Greenpeace has become synonymous wth conservationism Hoy en día, Greenpeace ha hecho sinónimos conservacionismo y con- and conservatism. It has taken the religious thought of its founders to servadurismo. Ha llevado hasta las últimas consecuencias el pensamien- its ultimate consequences and considers that mankind is a hindrance to religioso de algunos de los fundadores y considera realmente que el to the work of God. Thanks to the efficient propagandistic machine that hombre es un obstáculo para la obra de Dios. Y gracias a una efectiva it has developed for decades, this fundamentalism still has the respect máquina de propaganda que ha desarrollado durante décadas, este fun- of many. Nevertheless, there are more and more who stand for a more damentalismo sigue contando con el respeto de muchos. Sin embargo, constructive, more pragmatic ecologism. More to the measure of cada vez son más los que abogan por un ecologismo más constructivo, mankind. más pragmático. Más a la medida del hombre. Edita: “Sector Extractivo y Comercial Pesca Internacional S.L.” Puerto Pesquero s/n. Apartado de Correos 1078. Vigo (Pontevedra). España Consejo Asesor Editorial: José Ramón Fuertes Gamundi, Reinaldo Iglesias Prieto y José Antonio Suárez-Llanos Realiza esta revista: Imaxe Nova de Comunicación S.L. c/ Uruguai, 2 - 3º dcha. 36201 Vigo (España) Tel: 986 221 835 Fax: 986 437 141 • e-mail: [email protected] / [email protected] Consejo Editorial: Pilar Morón Castaño, Belén Porteiro Novoa, Manuel Quintero Seisdedos. Director “Pesca Internacional”: Alberto Alonso Gallego. Redactor Jefe: Jorge García. Redactores y colaboradores: Nicolás Acebes, Xabi Cereixo, A. Cruces, Lidia Garabatos, Marcial García, Marco Lavín, Clara Lázaro, José Lores (fotógrafo), Víctor Manteca, Nacho Martín-Aragón, Adrián A. Novoa, Carmen Parada, Javier Viana. Traducción: Ian Emmett Diseño gráfico: Nerea Otazo. Edición: Margarita Paulos. Publicidad y suscripciones: Bárbara Veiga Tel. 986 433 844 / 636 418 597 Fotomecánica e Impresión: C.A. Gráfica. Avda. de Vigo 80, Alto de Puxeiros Tameiga Mos (Pontevedra) Tel: 986 487 227 Depósito Legal: VG:735-2000 www.arvi.org/informativo “Pesca Internacional” no tiene por qué compartir la opinión de sus colaboradores. “Pesca Internacional” autoriza la reproducción total o parcial de los contenidos de la revista si se cita su procedencia. INFORME SUMARIO CONTENTS BUENA GOBERNANZA El sector defiende la La estrategia de acercar la Administración al ciudadano, posibilita decisiones, como la reforma de la PCP, en las que se margina al sector FORUM Opinions on trawling by: PESCA RES Concepción Soto (IEO); Javier Garat (FEOPE) and María 6 Frente a una propuesta de moratoria de arrastre José Caballero basada en la incertidumbre, la industria pesquera (Greenpeace) aboga por la regulación basada en el conocimiento TÚNIDOS Julio Morón explica la trascendencia de que España sea parte contrattante de una nuevo ORP, que regula capturas en el Pacífico occidental y central NEAFC 15 Norway attempts to push moratorium through on trawling to eliminate competitors ESTAI Transcurridos 10 años del 26 apresamiento del pesquero gallego en aguas internacionales, la justicia canadiense juzga aquellos hechos SPECIAL Interior accommodation and 36 deck gear ENTREVISTAS INTERVIEW l sector pesquero se ha organizaciones ambienta- marcha de un decreto de José Enrique Pereira. 40 visto de nuevo en las pri- listas, que afirman contar moratoria. El armador gallego meras páginas de los con el apoyo de más de En un lenguaje apocalípti- confía en que la periódicos. Esta vez debi- 1.000 científicos. co, desgraciadamente ha- justicia canadiense do a una campaña ecolo- En principio, el objetivo de bitual en buena parte del repare las gista desatada contra la la DSCC era la obtención movimiento ambientalista consecuencias del E pesca de arrastre de pro- de una moratoria que internacional, los defen- apresamiento del fundidad en aguas inter- impidiese la pesca de sores de la moratoria, “Estai” nacionales. Dicha campa- arrastre de profundidad –que es una prohibición Isabel Hernández, ña tiene ámbito planetario en aguas internacionales. temporal que puede alar- General Sub-Director y ha sido puesta en mar- De manera absolutamen- garse indefinidamente–, of the FROM cha por la autodenomina- te excepcional, la coali- de la pesca de arrastre de 45 da Deap Sea Conser- ción consiguió exponer profundidad en aguas BORG EN vation Coalition, Coa- sus pretensiones en la internacionales,
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