Ecuador - Organic law for the development of aquaculture and fisheries

The purpose of this Law is to establish the legal regime for the development of aquaculture and fishing activities in all their phases of extraction, harvesting, reproduction, breeding, raising, cultivation, processing, storage, distribution, internal and external commercialization, and related activities such as the promotion of the production of healthy food; the protection, conservation, research, exploitation and use of hydrobiological resources and their ecosystems, through the application of the ecosystemic fishing approach in such a way as to achieve sustainable and sustainable development that guarantees access to food, in harmony with the principles and rights established in the Constitution of the Republic, and respecting traditional and ancestral knowledge and forms of production.