Spain: Why does Asturias celebrate the maintenance of fishing quotas as a gain?

Sometimes, to preserve is to win. And that is the interpretation that has been made in Asturias of the result of the marathon meetings held in Brussels between Monday and Tuesday to approve the maximum total catches (TAC) of the main fishing species that the fleets of each community state will be able to make in 2025. No large increases in quotas have been "caught", but everything that was there is maintained - except for hake from community waters (Gran Sol) - and in some cases there are even significant increases (case of the Norway lobster and the megrims). For the horse mackerel (chicharro) and the elver there was also "reassuring" news. The example par excellence of the satisfaction that comes in Asturias not to have come out shorn from the always stormy waters of the Brussels offices is the assignment of a "continuist" quota for the so-called southern hake, which is fished on the Cantabrian coast with all kinds of gear. This species, which is very popular in the market, is ...