ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a history of Concholepas
fishery and the implementation in the 1990s of
TURF as a response to resource depletion. This
is done in chronological order and accompanied
by several tables that give a yearly tally of Loco
landings in relation to exploitation regimes.
Also the prelude to the advent of TURF is
described, then the transition to its incorpora-
tion into the 1991 Fishing Law (LPA), and
finally its formal evolution into co-management
in practice. Then the legal framework that
enables the establishment of MAs is discussed.
The chapter finishes with an overview of the
expansion of MAs in Chile and a presentation
of export statistics and prices from 1987 on-
wards, disaggregated into different exploitation
regimes.
