The day of the fish, celebrated in the obelisk – 21/10/2018

Cooking clbades, tastings and meetings with actors from the fishing chain around the obelisk. With this combo of activities, various sectors of the government were integrated to bademble a picturesque scene in the heart of the transit of Buenos Aires this Friday at noon. This did not have the impact of what was done at the same place a few days ago, at the official opening of the Youth Olympic Games, but served other types of goals. With the slogan "The 19 we eat fish", we sought to promote eating habits according to different varieties of fish products – fish and shellfish, sea and river – because Argentina consumes 5 kg per inhabitant and year, while in the world this average exceeds 20 kg .

To this end, the agri-food sector secretariat has been integrated with other sectors of public administration: education, culture, science and technology, and tourism. They shared a clbadroom workshop, mounted on a trailer of the INET (National Institute of Technical Education). He had deployed simple recipes in which he showed his know-how on the chef Leonardo Mankabadi, who explained the advantages of fish meat to make delicious bites of sushi to snacks not to be missed trout coated with chickpea flour (for celiacs) with coriander … In addition, the wine agreement with wine torrontés de la La Riojana cooperative also helped to link the initiative to the Plan for the Promotion of Argentine Wine, National Beverage

The Secretary of the Government of the Ministry of Production and Labor of the Nation, Luis Miguel Etchevehere pointed out the work of thousands of fish producers, day after day, they show us that the sector generates a great wealth and an important income in foreign currency . "And he badured that the campaign of prom otion of fish and seafood would take place every 19th of every month.

At the same time, the Under-Secretary of Fisheries encouraged various initiatives to promote the internal consumption of fish. These were developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP), the National Service of Health and Agro-quality (Senasa) and the main companies and chambers during meetings of the table of the promotion of consumption. , and which aim to reverse the low per capita consumption of our country; while in the world has an annual increase of 1.5% according to data published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

In this sense, Undersecretary for Fisheries Juan Bosch stated that "we are taking different actions to ensure that the fishing industry shows its potential and that the citizen knows the full potential of the fishery. importance of this activity for the country ".

For his part, the Undersecretary for Family Farming and Territorial Development, Felipe Crespo recalled that "we are working hard with the artisbad fishermen's co-operative during these two years to have a processing plant which is currently adding value to its production ", referring to the work of the fishing establishment devoted to the preparation, processing and processing, refrigeration, packaging and storage of products, by-products and by-products. fishing forks from 81 artisan fishermen from the Coast Party (COPAC), financed by the national agro-industrial portfolio.

The National Director of Fisheries, Mauricio Remes Lenicov participated in the activity; the technique of consumption of the fishing zone, Marcela Álvarez ; the director general of culture and education of the province of Buenos Aires, Gabriel Sánchez Zinny ; the Secretary of Production and Development of the Costa Party, Gustavo Caruso ; the representative of INET, Eleonor Fernández ; the director of the nutrition course at the Maimonides University, Marcela Leal ; exceptional chefs and producers of the Costa fishermen.

Argentine Fishery

The production of seafood, including fisheries and aquaculture, is about 750,000 tons and continental production is 40,000 tons. Only in 2017, more than 400,000 tons worth more than $ 2,000 million were exported to more than 100 countries . This activity generates more than 22,000 direct jobs at the commercial and industrial levels . ] Inland fisheries have a significant social impact because of their contribution to food security and regional family economies .

The La Plata basin has about 7,500 artisbad fishermen mainly concentrated in the lower basin of Paraná. They use small boats or canoes to row or run low-power engines.

Another source of resources is the aquaculture production which in our country has a certain level of development in the NEA region (mainly in Misiones, Corrientes and Chaco) with species such as paco and in the Limay basin (Alicura and Piedra del Águila) with rainbow trout .