The fight against illegal fishing is a topic that has been under discussion in recent months, including the budgetary issue, given the budget reductions generally faced by the current federal public administration. In this regard, in previous years, the budget for inspection and surveillance of the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Commission (CONAPESCA) came out of the institution 's Inspection and Surveillance Program and represented an expenditure of around 80 million pesos.1 However, starting in 2016, this program merged with the Program Regulation, Supervision and Application of Public Policies in Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, without being able to distinguish exactly how much is designated for inspection and surveillance.
For the years 2019 and 2020, through a request for information to CONAPESCA made by Causa Natura, it was possible to know what the budget allocated for these years was. In 2019, the budget for inspection and surveillance actions was 152 million pesos, allocating 35% to comprehensive services and 33% to analog and digital signal conduction services. For the year 2020, in the current context of the health and economic crisis, there was a very significant reduction in the budget allocated for inspection and surveillance, since this was only 45 million pesos, in other words, there was a 70% cut compared to the previous year. This year, the sector to which the most money was allocated was that of analog and digital signal conduction services, with 44% of the total budget allocated for inspection and surveillance.
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