Fishing industries and territorial development in Argentina since the crisis of 2001

Abstract

The Argentine Sea is one of the most important exclusive economic zones of the world, being rich in natural resources in the bed, the subsoil and in its waters. This maritime zone appears as strategic for the Argentine State, both economic and politically, especially because the extension of the sovereignty accepted by the United Nations [UN] throughout the continental shelf gives the possibility of the appropriation of its maximum extension.

This article analyzes the characteristics of the fishing activity present in Argentina, its organization, the areas affected by it, as well as the policies that guide its development especially since the 2001 crisis in a neoliberal economic context and in the discourse of the Sustainability. The proposed methodology is based on the statistical, bibliographic and normative analysis of the same. Throughout the article, with a geographical focus, will be discussed the fishing activity is oriented to a management of natural resources that has neglected social, economic and territorial sustainability.