CLANAE 03—Fisheries, aquaculture and support services

Where 03 sits

1. A Agriculture, livestock farming, hunting, forestry and fishing
2. 03 Fisheries, aquaculture and support services

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 03.1 Fishing and support services
• 03.2 Fish farming, fish farms and other aquatic products (aquaculture)

What 03 includes

• The concept of fishing encompasses a range of activities aimed at the capture and/or harvesting of fish species originating in inland or marine waters for commercial purposes. Aquaculture, which involves the cultivation and semi-cultivation of aquatic animal or plant species, and related services, is also included in this category.
• Sport or recreational fishing should not be considered within this classification (subclass 93.104).
• Given the difficulty in separating primary and manufacturing processes within the supply chain, the following operational criteria have been adopted: A) All processes carried out on the water aboard fishing vessels, processing vessels, or freezer vessels are considered part of the primary sector (group 03.1). B) The combination of fishing and the processing of fishery products carried out aboard vessels is assigned to subclass 03.112. C) Onshore processing activities fall under subclass 10.200, with the exception of frozen and chilled maintenance activities, which are considered auxiliary units.
• Vessels According to their operating methods, the vessels comprising the national fleet can be divided into trawlers (the majority of the Argentine fleet) and vessels equipped with specific and selective gear and equipment (outrigger trawlers, squid jiggers, longliners, and traps).
• Furthermore, based on the type of fish preservation and processing methods used on board, the fleet can be divided into fresh fish vessels and processing vessels.
• Fresh fish vessels (also called ice carriers or iceboxes) are vessels that transport the captured fish in refrigerated form, regardless of the fishing gear used and their cargo and navigation capacity.
• The fresh fish fleet includes inshore vessels, coastal vessels, and part of the deep-sea fleet. Inland vessels are ships with or without refrigeration capacity and with or without a hold, whose navigation time is limited to a maximum of twenty-four hours. The coastal and deep-sea fresh fish fleet consists of vessels with refrigeration capacity (mechanical equipment or ice) in an insulated hold. Their dimensions, cargo capacity, and range allow, in the case of the deep-sea fleet, navigation for a period of no more than fifteen days. The duration of the fishing trips undertaken by these vessels is closely tied to maintaining the suitability of the fish products for consumption. Fresh fish vessels are usually stern-mounted trawlers, although there are also those that haul in the catch from the starboard side. The trawl net can be operated with doors to ensure its proper opening, or vessels can operate together or in pairs.
• Depending on the resources targeted by their operations, fresh fish vessels may use bottom trawling (for croaker, whiting, coastal mixed species, and hake), midwater trawling (for anchovy and mackerel), or bottom trawling, the latter used by the smaller fleet for shrimp and prawn fishing. During certain times of the year, some vessels in the fresh fish fleet may operate purse seine nets with and without drawstrings to catch anchovy, mackerel, and bonito. Others use pots to catch sea bream, grouper, and salmon, and spider crab traps. The coastal fresh fish fleet may operate using hooks and longlines to fish for dogfish and coastal mixed species off the coast of Buenos Aires Province and for hake and salmon in Río Negro Province.
• The processing fleet consists of deep-sea fishing vessels equipped with mechanical freezing systems (plates, tunnels, or others). Depending on their operating characteristics, processing vessels can be bottom trawlers (for hake and bycatch, southern demersal species, and scallops), trawlers (for shrimp), squid jiggers (for squid), and longliners (for Patagonian toothfish, pollock, and ray). They can process products in different ways, regardless of the fishing gear used.
• Auxiliary units: In addition to vessels, fishing companies own auxiliary units for the maintenance and preservation of the products obtained in the same state as when unloaded from the ships. For example, a land-based cold storage facility for maintaining frozen products on board. In this case, no processing is carried out on the product obtained, and the facility should be classified under group 03.1. Other facilities of a similar nature operate as auxiliary units of land-based processing plants, and their activity should be classified under subclass 10.200.
• It should be noted that there are freezing plants that process the products they receive, transforming them from fresh or chilled into frozen goods. These production units should not be considered auxiliary units, and their activity should be classified under subclass 10.200.

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