En los últimos 25 años se ha producido una gigantesca expansión de las capturas de recursos marinos a escala mundial. Este fenómeno se ha replicado en Chile con la consecuente tendencia a la sobreexplotación del recurso. La regulación, si bien reconocida como necesidad, se ha realizado acorde con las presiones de diversos grupos de interés, pero sin lograr acomodar dichos intereses a una racionalidad de sustentabilidad a largo plazo.
In the last 25 years there has been a dramatic increase of marine resource captures worldwide. This phenomenon has also happened in Chile with its subsequent tendency to overexploit said resources.
While acknowledged as a necessity, regulation has been made in accordance to assorted pressure groups� interests, yet it has not been able to accommodate those interests to a rationale of long term sustaintability.