Spain manages to increase the fishing quota for mackerel, horse mackerel, alfonsino, and monkfish from Gran Sol in 2021

Published 2021년 2월 15일

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Spain has secured increased quotas for mackerel, horse mackerel, alfonsinos, and monkfish for 2021, following negotiations with the European Commission. The quota for mackerel has been raised from 65% to 72% of the 2020 total, and quotas for other fish species have also been increased. The Commission has also postponed the application of the overfishing deduction for mackerel, leading to a significant increase in the quota available to Spain. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is urging for a swift conclusion to EU-UK negotiations to establish the total allowable catches for 2021 and 2021-2022.

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MADRID, Feb 15 (EUROPA PRESS) - Spain has managed to increase the quota for mackerel, horse mackerel, alfonsinos and monkfish from Gran Sol in 2021, as reported this Monday by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The head of this department, Luis Planas, chaired this Monday the meeting of the Fisheries Policy Advisory Council for Community Affairs, in which the fishing opportunities for 2021 were discussed. In this sense, Planas reported that the Council Fisheries Ministers of the European Union will adopt a first modification of the regulation on total allowable catches (TAC) and quotas to increase the amounts agreed in December for certain stocks of "great interest" for Spain. The minister has valued the increases achieved and has cited the importance of the increase, especially in the case of mackerel for the Cantabrian fleet, since it is a migratory species, whose bulk of catches is concentrated in the first quarter of the year. Thus, after complicated negotiations ...

Source: europapress