Common front of fishermen and the Generalitat against the European plan that will eliminate trawling from protected areas

The fishing sector and the Authorities of the Generalitat have at this time demanded that Europe again down from its intention to limit trawling.

Common front of fishermen and the Generalitat against the European plan that will eliminate trawling from protected areas

The fishing sector and the Government of the Generalitat have at this time demanded that Europe again down from its intention to limit trawling. They contemplate that the plan authorized by the European Fee, which plans to remove the sort of fishing in protected areas by 2030, "places the survival in danger" of a fleet in Catalonia is already in clear regression.

The final director of Maritime Coverage and Sustainable Fishing, Sergi Todela, regrets that the European Union has not valued the hassle being made by the Catalan fishing sector in favor of sustainability.

He offers for example the organic closures of greater than two months, the discount of fishing hours and days by greater than 40% or the closure of 20 fishing zones with a complete space of ​​500 sq. kilometers or technical enhancements to cut back the impression on the fund and diesel consumption.

The Authorities factors out that each they and the fishermen "share the group goal of rising and stabilizing the fish inhabitants", however they contemplate that the European plan will not be the answer. They ask Europe to guess on the sector by setting, for instance, measures that assure the restoration of the fish inhabitants as a substitute of eliminating their catches.

Within the final 20 years, the trawling fleet, the method used to seize species corresponding to shrimp, Norway lobster, galley or hake, has been lowered by 40%. In these 20 years, as well as, the times of fishing have been lowered by 42%, the revenue of shipowners and sailors by 20% and the tons landed by 40%.

In 2022 there have been a complete of seven,000 tons of fish, which accounted for 34% of the overall and an quantity of first sale on the public sale of 55 million euros, a determine that represents 58% of the overall turnover of the auctions. In accordance with the Generalitat, these knowledge place trawling as "the motor of fishing exercise".

In accordance with the Generalitat, the Catalan trawling fleet has remained throughout the dimensions that a native and coastal fishing exercise recommends. "Nonetheless, presently the steadiness between fishing exercise, the employment and hiring of younger fishermen, the operation of ports and the organizational and industrial constructions of the sector is extraordinarily precarious," they warn.

"For each fisherman we lose, it is going to be tough for them to return, which places the continuity of the system in danger," says Tudela.

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