Falklands : Falklands Fisheries Industry Celebrates 20 Years in Operation
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 07.05.2006 (Article Archived on 21.05.2006)
It's been almost 20 years since the Falklands Fisheries Regime has begun.
THE FALKLANDS FISHERIES INDUSTRY CELEBRATES 20 YEARS IN OPERATION
By J. Brock (FINN)
One of the first petitions I signed was brought to the Deanery by former Councillor Charles Keenleyside in 1985. It dealt with setting up a fisheries regime in the Falkland Islands. In 1987, Mr Peter Durham became the first Director of Fisheries in the newly set up Conservation Zone.
Cllr. Andrea Clausen brought up the 20th anniversary of the Fisheries regime at GPC recently. When the regime started, the then Andrea Gray became a valued member of the team and later went on to University to Study Marine Biology. Now, she has been tasked to go to the Fisheries Advisory Committee to come up with a list of options that people might like to see commemorated at the 20th anniversary of the operations of the fishery.
We won’t know what those plans are until Ex-co approves them and money is allocated for the commemorations. Given proper management of our fish stocks, there is no reason – aside from changes in sea and climate conditions – why those stocks shouldn’t be in the zone in another 20 years.
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