Commercial Seafood Steamer
Guatemala is also performed in the so-called industrial fishing, dedicated exclusively to the almost complete extraction of the resource shrimp, fish product world's most sought through the implementation of the so-called bottom trawling. The UN agency estimates that each year are caught in the sea about 3. 5 million tons of shrimp. Developing countries supplied 90% of all shrimp consumed in the world's richest nations, amounting to 8,000 million dollars annually, according to data managed by the FAO. But this sector, which employs hundreds of thousands of people in developing countries, is one of the most wasted resources. FAO estimates that for every kilo of shrimp fishermen accidentally caught up to 20 kilos of other marine species that are returned to the sea but dead. Artisanal fishing is unlike other fisheries because it is conceptualized as the extraction of aquatic organisms to their natural habitats with the use of fishing gear and equipment with low ecological impact. Its purpose is to provide the product obtained through commercial seafood steamer channels to consumers both nationally and internationally. Their actions provide a fund that can be considered as new working capital that contributes to the development of areas where it is made. It is a regional leader, who legitimately represents the interests and expectations of the artisanal fishing sector through estragegias Guatemala and lines of action several innovative and high quality. Among the groups that make FENAPESCA are associations, cooperatives, committees and COCODES, all divided on the Pacific, Atlantic and Inland Waters. . . .
