Argentina's fisheries industry is at risk from a tough government line that has blocked a possible compromise in a dispute with the labor unions.
Industrial action by maritime union workers demanding wage and benefit increases shut down fishery operations in Mar del Plata, about 240 miles south of Buenos Aires, and in the southern Patagonian ports.
Neither the government nor fisheries industry officials could reveal losses resulting from the stoppage, but industry analysts said the loss of earnings — both by workers and exporters — ran into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
