Spain: Planas calls Brussels' proposal for fishing in the Mediterranean "unacceptable"

The Spanish Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, described the European Commission's (EC) proposal on fishing possibilities in the Mediterranean for 2025 as "unacceptable", which would only allow Spanish trawlers to go fishing 27 days a year in those waters, and added that it makes the activity of that fleet "economically unviable." "The Commission's proposal makes fishing activity in the Mediterranean economically unviable," he said upon his arrival at the meeting of the European Union's Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers that begins today in Brussels, where fishing possibilities are being negotiated. He added that it is "absolutely unacceptable" that the Spanish fleet of trawlers in the Mediterranean can only go out to sea 27 days a year and that the Brussels proposal is "clearly unacceptable" because "it means, first of all, not taking into account the efforts made by our fishermen in the last five years." In this regard, he explained that in these five years ...