Concern of the Italian Navy for the prohibition of the trawling system

Published 2023년 5월 17일

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Italian fishing boats face potential demise due to new European regulations set to ban trawling, a crucial fishing method, by 2030, reducing fishing areas by up to 30%. This policy, protested by local fishermen and fishing business organizations like Coldiretti Impresapesca, could lead to a loss of two-thirds of the national catch and an estimated 18,000 jobs. The situation is worsened by the import of over a billion kilos of seafood products in 2022 and the rise of lab-grown fish, despite environmental efforts showing positive results. These changes are further exacerbated by climate change, overheating, and bureaucratic challenges, resulting in the disappearance of one-third of fishing companies and jobs over the past three decades.

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There are almost three thousand Italian fishing boats that will be "sunk" by the new European lines which foresee the disappearance of trawling, the most productive sector of the national navy, with a devastating impact on the economy, employment and consumption. A measure against which the fishermen of Coldiretti Impresapesca protest in the Italian ports by making the sirens of the boats sound in unison. A mobilization that concerns the whole European Union. The goal is to get the protest to Brussels and to the Commissioner for Fisheries and the Environment Virginijus Sinkevicius, whose new guidelines to integrate the Common Policy provide for shock measures for the Italian fleet . The most disruptive measure - underlines Coldiretti Impresapesca - is the prohibition of the trawling system which represents 65% of the national catch in terms of production, operating on average no more than 130 days a year, according to the analysis by Coldiretti Fishing business. But the new lines ...

Source: Siciliaagricoltura