Planas Highlights that the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE) Will Boost Sustainability and Competitiveness of Fishing

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, Luis Planas, highlighted this Thursday that the Agri-Food Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (Perte), which has granted 40 million euros to 19 companies, six of them from Galicia, will boost the sustainability and competitiveness of the sector after "very intense work" with the European Commission. "It will allow us to strengthen our fish and aquaculture product processing industry, particularly in sustainability and competitiveness," he emphasized in statements to journalists during a visit to Vigo, after meeting with the city's mayor, Abel Caballero. Planas detailed that the aid will boost competitiveness regarding energy costs and the energy transformation of fishing companies, and sustainability in the use of by-products and water. "We had to carry out very intense work with the European Commission because, for legal reasons, the fishing sector had been excluded from the application of the Agri-Food ...