Spain asks that there be no delays in consultations with London on fishing quotas

The issue was addressed at a meeting in Luxembourg in which, on the part of Spain, the Spanish Secretary General for Fisheries, Alicia Villauriz, and the Secretary General for Agriculture and Food, Fernando Miranda, participated. The ministers debated the negotiating position to fix the fishing opportunities for 2022 in the "stocks" that the European Union shares with the United Kingdom in North Atlantic waters. Villauriz defended that scientific recommendations and socioeconomic information be taken into account when assigning TACs (Total Allowable Catches) and fishing quotas, which for Spain are focused on species such as northern hake, rooster and monkfish, reported the Spanish Ministry of Fisheries in a statement. He stressed the importance of the consultations being completed within the established timeframe, to avoid uncertainty in 2021. This year, the absence of a pact in the first months meant that both the EU and the United Kingdom had to allocate unilateral quotas to be ...