Millennial fishing demands support for generational change, from Seychelles to the Mediterranean

Spanish millennial fishing professionals - from the Basque tuna fleet or the Mediterranean trawl - are calling for more job and training support to rejuvenate crews, on the occasion of World Fisheries Day, which is celebrated this Friday. The captain of the tuna boat Cape Coral, Unai Reinoso (30 years old), from Bermeo (Biscay), and the mariner Águeda Vitória (38 years old), from Alicante, have defended, in interviews with Efeagro, that there is a future in the sea as a means of livelihood, despite the generational relay problem that concerns the sector so much. About 31,000 crew members are fishing in Spain, while there are 61,900 affiliates in the Special Social Security Scheme for Sea Workers. But the lack of personnel in the crew and command positions is a worrying problem for fishing companies, in Spain and throughout the European Union (EU). Reinoso captains the tuna boat Cape Coral, of the shipowner Albacora, with 35 crew members, and assures that he has "saltpeter in his ...