Lima, Peru<\/p>\n
Chorrillos Fish Market<\/p>\n
SECRETARY BLINKEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Good morning, everyone.\u00a0 Thank you for joining me for breakfast.\u00a0 It\u2019s, first of all, wonderful to be here and to have heard from some of our colleagues who are part of something that is fundamental to Peru, to its economy, to its culture, and benefits so many people around the world, including the United States, which is fishing.<\/p>\n One of the big challenges that we see here in Peru but also in many countries around the world is the problem of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.\u00a0 It\u2019s having a profound impact on stocks of fish, on the livelihoods of fisherpeople, on sustainability.\u00a0 And what we\u2019re working on \u2013 and I\u2019m proud to say working in collaboration with the Walton Family Foundation, USAID \u2013 are programs to help deal with the challenge of illegal, unregulated, unreported fishing.\u00a0 And we\u2019re doing that here in Peru with a new program that we\u2019re putting forward today.<\/p>\n Working closely with this community, we will help the Peruvians formalize the work of the community.\u00a0 That will allow all of us to improve the sustainability of the industry and, as a result, save livelihoods, save an entire way of life, and make sure that that\u2019s the case for many, many years to come.<\/p>\n So we\u2019re very pleased to be doing this in partnership with colleagues here in Peru, but I think it\u2019s also a model of what we need to be doing and we are doing in many other places where this is a growing challenge.\u00a0 It\u2019s something that doesn\u2019t get the attention it deserves.\u00a0 We have many countries around the world where fishing is at the heart of their economy and the heart of their culture as well where illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing is a real and growing challenge.\u00a0 So we\u2019re working to try to deal with that, to get ahead of it, and to do it in partnership with our friends here in Peru.<\/p>\n So thanks for joining us today, get a chance to see this.\u00a0 I also very much commend to you, if you have a moment, you need lunch or dinner, this is the place.\u00a0 And the sandwiches that we just had, boy, that is a great way to start the day.\u00a0 So, thank you.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lima, Peru Chorrillos Fish Market SECRETARY...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53231,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53230\/revisions\/53231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}