Spain: The Mediterranean bluefin tuna purse seine fleet expects a favorable campaign in 2024

Purse seine owners will join the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery in May. The companies Ricardo Fuentes e Hijos and Balfegó - which bring together the purse seine fleet, the one with the greatest capacity - expect a favorable fishing campaign for Mediterranean bluefin tuna in 2024 - due to the recovery of the species, according to sources from Efeagro. the shipowners The eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna campaign has already begun for the Canarian artisanal fleet, it is at its beginning in the traps - with the first pieces in those of Portugal - and will reach its central point when the - migratory - species arrives. to Mediterranean waters and the purse seine fleet joins on May 26. Ricardo Fuentes -with a port in Cartagena (Murcia)- and Balfegó -from L'Ametlla de Mar (Tarragona)- hope that it will be a good and effective season, due to the good state of the fishery. Ricardo Fuentes has pointed out that tuna continues to have a "healthy" situation and has stressed ...