Spain: The Canarian Government and the fishing sector managed to advance the bluefin tuna campaign to January

The General Secretariat of Fisheries has published the Resolution establishing the provisions of the 2024 bluefin tuna campaign for vessels in the Canary Islands fishing grounds, which this year is brought forward from March to January, as the Government of Canary Islands and the fishing sector of the Archipelago. Canarian fishermen can catch this tunica until June 14, 2024 (from January 29). In this sense, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands, Narvay Quintero, explained that the Canary Islands Executive and the representatives of the sector "have worked these months to ensure that the Ministry understood the need to advance the opening of the catch period for this tuna at the beginning of the year in order to increase the fishing opportunities of the Archipelago fleet and distribute the catches at different times of the year. Quintero stated that although he recognizes the State's willingness to apply this proposal, ...