Inter Press ServiceEcobreves - GUATEMALA: Promoting Artisanal Fishing https://www.ipsnews.net/2006/02/ecobreves-guatemala-promoting-artisanal-fishing/ News and Views from the Global South Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:49:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Ecobreves – GUATEMALA: Promoting Artisanal Fishing https://www.ipsnews.net/2006/02/ecobreves-guatemala-promoting-artisanal-fishing/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2006/02/ecobreves-guatemala-promoting-artisanal-fishing/#respond Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000 IPS Correspondents and No author http://ipsnews.net/?p=120388 By IPS Correspondents and - -
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 4 2006 (IPS)

Some 15,000 small scale fisherfolk along Guatemala's Pacific and Atlantic coasts will benefit from a project “with incentives and aimed at supplying the national market,” says Erick Villagrán, coordinator of the government fishing and fisheries agency, Unipesca.

Shrimp. - Claudio Contreras.

Shrimp. - Claudio Contreras.

“The goal is to build six collections centers in areas of greatest production of fish and shellfish. The first warehouse is almost finished in the area of Tilapa,” in the western department of San Marcos, he added.

There will also be incentives for producing tilapia fish as well as shrimp, which according to Villagrán, 90 percent of what is sold inside Guatemala is farmed, and 10 percent is wild.

The incentive has the backing of Spain's international cooperation agency and the Guatemala City government.

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