{"id":37085,"date":"2012-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/newss\/chilean-senate-approves-controversial-fishing-law"},"modified":"2012-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"chilean-senate-approves-controversial-fishing-law","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/chilean-senate-approves-controversial-fishing-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean senate approves controversial fishing law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chile&#8217;s senate approved a proposed new fisheries law Thursday amid opposition criticism that it would award fishing concessions to just a few families.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from regulating fishing licenses, the controversial measure also would set new fishing quotas and requires the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) on boats.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to the vote, hundreds of demonstrators marched in Santiago in opposition to the law.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 4,000 kilometers of coastline (2,485 miles), the South American country is a leading producer of fish.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition politicians have threatened to take the legislation to the country&#8217;s constitutional court on the grounds that it violates the principle of equality before the law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this fisheries law, we have lost a historic opportunity to create a law that benefits the entire country and not just a few,&#8221; said Isabel Allende, a socialist senator.<\/p>\n<p>The measure now goes to the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":26785,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[1932,1017,2923,1037],"region":[2006],"source":[421],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/37085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/37085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=37085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}