Norberto Yauhar
Norberto Yauhar | |
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| Minister of Agriculture | |
| In office December 10, 2011 – November 20, 2013 | |
| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Julián Domínguez |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Casamiquela |
| Undersecretary of Fisheries | |
| In office November 8, 2008 – December 10, 2011 | |
| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Gerardo Nieto |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 7, 1960 Argentine |
Norberto Gustavo Yauhar (born December 7, 1960) is an Argentine politician. He was designated Minister of Agriculture by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2011, serving in the post until 2013.
Life and times
Yauhar was born in
He entered politics as a member of the
Yauhar's rapport with Das Neves deteriorated early in his second term, however. He was opposed to das Neves' break with Kirchnerism (with whose support the governor had been reelected),[4] and in turn, earned the enmity of the governor's son, Pablo das Neves.[3] Yauhar resigned in September, and was offered a Federal Government post as Coordinator of Public Enterprises for Public Works Minister Julio de Vido. He worked well with de Vido, and with the latter's support was appointed Secretary of Fisheries in November.[5]
The largely autonomous Fisheries Secretariat became a part of the newly established Ministry of Agriculture in 2009. The fishing sector in Argentina had been declining for years as a result of overexploitation and high discard rates; the important Argentine hake catch in particular had declined by around 70% since the mid-1990s. Yauhar offered the commercial fishing lobby the lifting of a long-standing regulation requiring the use of special fishing nets designed to free juvenile hake, citing widespread non-compliance. This concession was granted in return for stricter catch share quotas and government monitoring of fishing vessels. The difficulty of monitoring vessel movements along the vast Argentine Sea made implementation of this latter policy unfeasible, however, and by April 2010, Yauhar admitted the failure of this new policy from the point of view of conservation; the lifting of special net requirement proved a boon to the hake fishing industry, however, which saw its catch double to around 800,000 tons in the interim.[6] The Director of the Greenpeace Oceans Campaign, Milko Schvartzman, cited lax enforcement of the catch quotas as another factor.[4]
Yauhar ran for mayor of his adopted city, Trelew, in his splinter New
References
- ^ a b "El nuevo Ministro de Agricultura es nacido en Roca". Radio El Valle.
- ^ "Honesto funcionario se nace, por Rubén Ali Yauhar". Agencia Periodística Patagónica.
- ^ a b "Chubut: renunció un ministro clave de Das Neves". La Nación.
- ^ a b c d "Un chubutense que ganó lugar por pelearse con Das Neves". Clarín.
- ^ "El subsecretario de Pesca renuncia por la crisis del sector". La Nación.
- ^ Maturana, Roberto. "Soberanía alimentaria y corrupción institucional". Tribuna de Periodistas.
- ^ "Pérez Catán se impuso en Trelew". El Diario Chubut.
- ^ "¿Quién es Norberto Yauhar?". Minuto Uno.