The EU raises the hake quota for Spain in 2022 from 4,900 to 9,200 tons

The Spanish Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, assured this Monday that the southern hake quota for Spain for this 2022 will grow by 84%, from the 4,899 tons initially planned to 9,201 tons. "Today is a special day and, furthermore, very significant and tremendously important for Spain because (...) the extension of the quota available for Spain of southern hake is going to be approved, of nothing more and nothing less than a figure of 4,899 tons existing today, approved in December of last year, to 9,201 tons, that is, more than an 84% increase," he declared. Planas expressed himself in this way upon his arrival at the meeting of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of the European Union (EU) that is being held in Luxembourg. The Spanish minister recalled that when setting fishing opportunities for 2022 last year, it was considered that for southern hake, which is caught in the Bay of Biscay and Atlantic waters from Finisterre to Tarifa, there was not enough ...