Spain defends a balanced fishing agreement to maintain the profitability of the fleet and preserve resources

Published 2022년 12월 12일

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Spain's Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, is advocating for a balanced fishing agreement that would maintain the profitability of the fleet while preserving resources. He is seeking increased quotas for southern hake, haddock, and sole, and is opposed to the proposed drastic cut in eel fishing periods. Spain is also pushing for multi-year quotas for certain fishing species to provide stability and better planning for the fishing industry. These decisions are being made during EU Council of Ministers negotiations for total allowable catch and quotas for 2023 in community and non-EU waters.

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The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, defends for Spain, the main Community fishing fleet and a key economic sector for many coastal areas of the country, a balanced fishing agreement, which allows maintaining the activity and profitability of the fleet, while while the resources are preserved. Planas participated in the "marathon" Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of the European Union (EU) that is held in Brussels, in which they will try to reach a political agreement on the total allowable catch ( TAC) and quotas for 2023 in community and non-EU waters, as well as the fishing opportunities, on days of activity, in the Mediterranean. The minister has referred to the complexity of the negotiations, since, for example, In the Atlantic, regarding the stocks shared between the EU and the United Kingdom, the negotiations for community waters are carried out on more than 90 fishing species. It has influenced that the priorities s for Spain are ...

Source: Agrodiario