Spain requests more fishing days in the Mediterranean amid species recovery

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has called for "more days" of fishing for the sector in light of the European report that reveals the recovery of stocks and in anticipation of another report from the scientific advisory committee on resources of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean. He expressed this to journalists while attending the inauguration of the 48th meeting of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean and Black Sea (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Malaga. Planas has warned the European Commission that from the congress that must set quotas and fishing days on December 11 and 12, an issue that last year proved "very contentious", "only more days for our fishermen and shipowners in the Mediterranean can come out." He highlighted the report that shows "a recovery of 'stocks' (stocks)" and that "if there is recovery", they must be preserved, "but also the fishermen and ...