Individual Quota System for Anchovy Fishing and the Conservation of Hydrobiological Resources in Chimbote, Peru

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine whether the access regime and conditions for granting fishing rights; the allocation and duration of the quota system; fisheries control and control actions; and the monitoring, supervision, and sanction of regulatory breaches are the normative criteria of the system of individual quotas for anchovy fishing in direct human consumption to promote the conservation of hydrobiological resources, Chimbote, Peru, 2018. The research was applied, a non-experimental and descriptive correlational design. The sample was composed of National and Comparative Legislation, Doctrine, Jurisprudence, and Records specialized in fisheries issues; and by 30 fisheries experts: lawyers 25% and representatives of fishermen 25%, from the District of Chimbote. Two questionnaires were used for the variables under study. The results showed that the regulatory criteria of the individual quota system for anchovy fishing are 76.7% efficient in the conservation of hydrobiological resources; being Kendall's Tau-b test statistical contingency coefficient τ= 0.89, with a standard significance level of less than 1% (P < 0.01). It was demonstrated that the regime of access and conditions for granting fishing rights, the allocation and duration of the quota system, the actions of control and fisheries control, and the monitoring, supervision, and sanction of regulatory breaches are in 76.7% of the normative criteria of the individual quota system of anchovy fishing for direct human consumption to promote the conservation of hydrobiological resources being the statistical contingency coefficient of proof  Kendall's Tau-b is τ= 0.89, with standard significance level less than 1% (P < 0.01).  Likewise, the corresponding proposal was made for the regulation of the normative criteria of the individual quota system of anchovy fishing in direct human consumption to promote the conservation of hydrobiological resources, defining the parameters for their development and viability.