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VOX asks in Congress for aid to the Norway lobster fishing in Huelva after the EU restrictions

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Published Dec 23, 2022

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The national deputy of VOX for Huelva, Tomás Fernández, has registered two questions on Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies to find out if the Government of Spain plans to help the fishing sector dedicated to Norway lobster in the province of Huelva due to the restrictions of the European Union . Fernández asks the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if "it plans to articulate some type of specific aid for the trawling fleet dedicated to Norway lobster fishing in the province of Huelva, given the new 36% cut in the catches of said species, decreed by the European Union for 2023″.

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The national deputy also formulates a question to find out if the Government plans to take measures "so that said cut does not end up finally affecting the overexploitation in the Gulf of Cádiz of other species on which the fleet will have to focus from now on dedicated to date to the capture of the Norway lobster». In the explanatory statement, Fernández recalls that "the Norway lobster trawling fleet in the province of Huelva, with more than fifty vessels dedicated exclusively to it, is an important part of the province's fishing industry, and especially of the ports of Isla Cristina and Punta del Moral (Ayamonte), where this fishery is essential for the economy of many families”. It warns that "the new agreement reached this last week between the Fisheries Ministers of the European Union for the Total Allowable Catches (TAC), which will reduce the catches of this species by 36% by the year 2023, will deal a final blow to the viability of this fleet." The VOX deputy for Huelva ...
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