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The main purpose of the organization is to meet Latin American food requirements adequately, making use of Latin American fishery resource potencial for the benefit of Latin American peoples, by concerted action in promoting the constant development of the countries and the permanent strengthening of regional cooperation in this sector. | Objectives | | |
The general objectives of the Organization are: - to promote adequate utilization of fishery resources, preserving the marine and freshwater environment through the application of rational policies for the conservation of resources;
- to encourage and strengthen the Latin American cooperation in the development of the rational exploitation of sea and freshwater fishery resources, for the benefit of the peoples in the region;
- to increase substantially a food supply of sufficient nutritional value, the prices, preparation and presentation of which are in keeping with the needs of the low-income inhabitants of the region;
- to increase in the same manner, consumption of marine and freshwater products in the region;
- to encourage, similarly, export diversification and expansion;
- to promote marketing systems to expand the regional exchange of products of the sector;
- to promote generation of jobs and improvement of incomes, through greater social and economic development of the communities related to the fish of the region;
- to improve and strengthen the productive, institutional, organizational and human resources capacity of the sector;
- to promote and organize utilization of the joint negotiating capacity of the Latin American region, as well as to determine, identify and channel international, technical and financial cooperation, through concrete regional coordination and cooperation within the scope of the sector.
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| Strategies | | |
In order to attain its objectives, OLDEPESCA carries out activities in the following areas of fisheries:- in the Area of Research on fishery resources, it fosters joint actions for their rational utilization and adequate conservation;
- in the Area of Exploitation of fishery resources, industrialization and physical support infrastructure, it arranges for multilateral activities to be carried out for the exploitation of fishery resources of regional interest and for providing incentives for the industrializations of sea and freshwater products;
- in the Area of Aquaculture, it fosters and develops said activities aimed at expanding fishery production in marine and inland waters;
- in the Area of Technological development, it encourages production, adaptation, promotion and dissemination of technologies suitable to regional condition in order to enhance production and at the same time preserving the marine environment and protecting resources;
- in the Marketing Area, it establishes the mechanisms necessary for improving marketing conditions of Latin American fishery products and for making them more accessible to the regional consumer and more competitive in export markets;
- in the Training Area, it encourages specialization at all levels and stages of the fishery activity, with emphasis on artisanal fishing, according to national or multinational program requirements;
- in the Area of International Cooperation, it identifies and channels the international technical and financial cooperation required for complying with the objectives of the organization and implementing the specific projects.
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| Member countries of OLDEPESCA
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| Legal Framework | | |
The Constitutional Agreement of the Latin American Organization for Fisheries Development - OLDEPESCA - was signed on October 29, 1982, and entered into force on November 2, 1984, date on which its First Conference of Ministers was also held.
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