Although it prohibits aquaculture in the Beagle Channel and the freshwater of Tierra del Fuego's main island— a victory for the socio-environmental struggle that preceded it —the Tierra del Fuego government has opened the door to aquaculture on the Atlantic coast . To achieve this, it managed to amend Law 1355 by a single vote, which now casts doubt on the future of rigorous impact studies and citizen participation. This comes after six years in office, when the administration has demonstrated ineptitude, incompetence, irresponsibility, and a propensity to serve the corporate interests of a small group of companies based in the bicontinental province, whose owners are detached from the society that inhabits it.

There is no doubt about the global reality . Global experience demonstrates that intensive farming systems, even controlled ones, carry severe risks: pollution from organic and chemical waste, the spread of diseases, and potential escapes that disrupt native ecosystems. This is a project of dubious macroeconomic benefit, generating little employment and concentrating profits, while assuming an unnecessary environmental risk.

This meticulous regulatory concern contrasts obscenely with the absolute passivity and, above all, the silence in the face of the historical dispossession in the usurped waters of the Malvinas, legitimately belonging to the province temporarily governed by Melella .

There, the British colonial administration collects over $300 million annually from the sale of fishing licenses to Spanish-British, Taiwanese, and South Korean companies. And by extracting/stealing, according to the usurping administration, an amount of 250,000 tons of Argentine fish resources.

Squid fishing, the driving force behind the colony's illegal economy, is carried out without the province or the national government receiving a single cent or exercising any control over the sustainability of the resource. The losses to the country's economy, when these resources reach supermarket shelves, amount to no less than two trillion dollars . Moreover, this is accompanied by incalculable ecological damage from unregulated fishing.

Just one fact: 30% of the European Economic Community consumes squid from the Malvina Islands that enters through the Galician ports of Vigo and Marín .

The contrast could not be more telling . On the one hand, the Melella government is busy pushing through a law for a controversial industry, inconsequential on the provincial economic scale and potentially harmful, aimed at satisfying sectoral interests, and on the other hand, it completely disengages - without firm legal actions as they had promised at the beginning of their first term and without a clear sovereign stance - from the fabulous depredation of an invaluable common good, of very high environmental and nutritional quality existing in the Malvina Islands .

How much can the provincial coffers collect from the taxes generated through the industrial-scale captive breeding of salmon?

They promise to closely monitor any aquaculture ventures, but they passively tolerate marine depredation.

In this paradox, the official rhetoric of "environmental, social, and economic balance" and "consensus" is nothing more than a smokescreen concealing a timid policy, lacking a strategic vision for development and a vigorous defense of Tierra del Fuego's interests. It prefers to turn its back on its own citizens and ignore collective rejection rather than engage in a crucial battle to defend the sovereign right to manage and consume the resources of the Province and the Nation, resources that have been seized by Great Britain and its partners.