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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
General Roca, Río Negro General Roca is a city in the northeast of the Argentine province of Río Negro, northern Patagonia. It was founded on September 1, 1879, by Colonel Lorenzo Vintter, on the order of War Minister Julio A. Roca, during the Conquest of the Desert ...
, in 1960. His family were
cattle rancher Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are large, domesticated, cloven-hooved, herbivores. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus ''Bos''. Adult females are referred to as cows and adult mal ...
s in rural
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, though he himself would spend much of his life in
Trelew Trelew (, from cy, tref "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina. Located in Patagonia, the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the Chubut River, wit ...
, in neighboring
Chubut Province Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes ra ...
. He entered politics as a member of the
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, and would later work with Trelew-area Congressman Mario das Neves. Das Neves appointed Yauhar to the powerful Ministry of Coordination upon taking office as Governor of Chubut in 2003, and Yauhar played key roles in advancing the governor's main initiatives. These included the renegotiation of
royalties A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset. Royalties are typically agreed upon as a percentage of gross or net revenues derived from the use of an asset o ...
from the province's lucrative
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sector, as well as the establishment of the Chubut Neighborhood Projection party, whose endorsement of das Neves' 2007 reelection campaign gave the governor an absolute majority in the Provincial Legislature. 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), and in turn, earned the enmity of the governor's son, Pablo das Neves. Yauhar resigned in September, and was offered a Federal Government post as Coordinator of Public Enterprises for Public Works Minister
Julio de Vido Julio Miguel de Vido (born December 26, 1949) is an Argentine politician who was Minister of Planning and Public Investment between 2003 and 2015. Biography De Vido was born in the City of Buenos Aires in 1949. Enrolling at the University of Bue ...
. He worked well with de Vido, and with the latter's support was appointed Secretary of Fisheries in November. 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 Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns. Continued overexploitation can lead to the destruction of the resource, as it will be unable to replenish. The term app ...
and high discard rates; the important
Argentine hake The Argentine hake (''Merluccius hubbsi'') is a merluccid hake of the genus ''Merluccius'', found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, along the coast of Argentina, and Uruguay. This fish was described by an Argentine ichthyologist, Tomás Marini ...
catch in particular had declined by around 70% since the mid-1990s. Yauhar offered the
commercial fishing Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often ...
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 Catch share is a fishery management system that allocates a secure privilege to harvest a specific area or percentage of a fishery's total catch to individuals, communities, or associations. Examples of catch shares are individual transferable quot ...
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. The Director of the
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Oceans Campaign, Milko Schvartzman, cited lax enforcement of the catch quotas as another factor. Yauhar ran for mayor of his adopted city, Trelew, in his splinter New
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Space ticket in March 2011, but was defeated by the rival Peronist candidate endorsed by Governor das Neves, Máximo Pérez Catán. Following the election in October of Agriculture Minister Julián Domínguez to the
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, Yauhar was designated to the post by President
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. He was widely expected to continue his predecessor's policy of rapprochement with the
agrarian sector Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...
, whose relationship with the federal government had suffered in the wake of a 2008 dispute over a proposed hike in export taxes.


References

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