The EU will give a new twist to the fishing sector of the Valencian Community by dilute THE AIDS that he receives to update it with community requests inside of those intended for agriculture.
He … senator from Benidorm Agustín Almodóbar Ha recovered At Government A defense “serious, firm and based on scientific criteria for Mediterranean fishing in the face of its serious situation” and recalled that this activity has been “subject since 2020 to successive controls discounts of days of activity “which have endangered its continuity and the socio-economic balance of coastal communities”.
Although the popular parliamentary spokesperson considered as “a necessary respite” the commitment of the European Commissioner for Fisheries to study extensions with the granting of 13 days additional, “crucial» in order to complete the CampaignChristmasconsiders that the executive of Pedro Sánchez must put pressure on Europe to design “a broader strategy that ensures stability and avoids annual uncertainty about its future”.
To begin with, there are differences between territories and in Brussels, we seem to ignore them, as well as what “traditional” professional practices imply, with repercussions beyond the catches themselves, as an element that contributes to tourism, mainly.
Almodóbar also expressed concern about the negotiations of the next multiannual financial framework, warning that the possible integration of FEMPA (European Fund for Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture) in a agricultural context wider would mean “a unacceptable decline» for fishing in the Mediterranean. According to him, the fleet needs clean and stable financing to meet the modernization arts, decarbonization, on-board safety and technological investments required by the energy transition. “We cannot ask for more efforts without guaranteeing the necessary instruments,” he stressed.
And at the very moment when slaughterers have been obliged to have more sustainable and more respectful technology for the marine environment, which implies significant investments, it is now doubtful that there will be European funding to support this sustainable, but costly modernization, since it is included in the agricultural sector.
“The Mediterranean has compliment with the homework and demonstrated responsibility; We now need Europe to comply with it”, stressed the senator from Alicante, while emphasizing that Mediterranean fishing “is not only an economic sector, but a pillar of territorial cohesion, an element of cultural identity and an engine that also stimulates the quality and uniqueness of tourism on our coasts”. Markets And gastronomy For example, they are part of the essence of the Costa Blanca of Alicante.
It is for this reason that he defended that any European decision must weigh not only the environmental impact, but also the economic, social and cultural impact, particularly in areas where fishing and tourism they form a ecosystemcommonas in the province of Alicante.
Almodóbar insisted that Spain must present itself to Brussels with a clear position, agreed with the brotherhoods, professional organizations, autonomous communities and the scientific community, and accompanied by rigorous socio-economic evaluations. He also affirmed the need for the European Union to promote coordinated agreements with the coastal countries from the south of Mediterraneanensuring sustainability measures that affect all fleets equally.
“We hope for more solutions and fewer problems”
This Sunday, the People’s Party of the province of Castellón once again defended fishing hang out “as synonymous with employment and well-being” for the province and called for “joining forces” to guarantee the future “in hundreds of families» who live in the area.
“It is not possible to reduce trawl fishing activity to 9.6 days per year; We must live up to what our fishermen expect of us and provide Europe with solid arguments that reconcile the protection of the sea and the professional practice of fishing,” declared the coordinator of the Territorial Commission of the PPCS, Andres Martinez.
Furthermore, he said that in the PP it is “clear that what is important are the 600 fishermen who work at sea” and what they “expect from Ministry» are “more solutions And fewer problems“.
For Martínez, the maritime professionals who carry out their work on the coast of Castellón “are an example of respect and sustainability towards the sea; they are the first to guarantee the biological stops because the results depend on it. It is for this reason that he warned that they will not allow “the shipwreck of the 60 boats who dedicate themselves to this art of fishing.
“Discriminatory treatment”, according to the Generalitat
The Minister of Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries, Miguel Barrachinahad already recently asked the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to “defend the Valencian fishing sector to the European Union and guarantee that no discriminatory treatment is applied to its fishermen”.
Above all, he focused on unequal conditions and comparative grievances. “It is not acceptable that our fleets are confronted disproportionate restrictions while other regions appreciate benefitsendangering the viability of many families and businesses that depend on fishing,” he denounced.
Barrachina had highlighted the need for the ministry to support the Valencian Community in the face of the proposal for a new multiannual financial framework (PMF) for the period 2028-2034, guaranteeing a “strong” European budget for the common agricultural policy and fisheries policy, which allows it to cope challenges structural, water, climatic and generational change. “We have big issues at stake in Europe: whether to continue fishing or to end fishing in the Mediterranean depends on decisions that we cannot allow to be left behind,” he said.
The minister criticized reduction of days of fishing imposed by the European Commission, which went from 133 to 27, and regretted that the Spanish government had not defended the interests of the sector: “For years, neither Europe nor the Spanish government has done their homework, which has accepted decisions detrimental to our fishermen,” he added.
Bluefin tuna quotas
For example, your department has required that shipments under the modality of minor arts of the Mediterranean in the allocation of fishing quotas bluefin tuna.
Taking into account the proposal for criteria and distribution percentages proposed by the Ministry, which would modify Royal Decree 46/2019 which regulates bluefin tuna fishing in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the Director General of Fisheries, Miguel Castell, He emphasizes that now that there is more tuna, “it is time to open our hands to the small Mediterranean fishing fleet and help these boats.” don’t disappear“.
According to him, they need protection “or are doomed to disappear” and the quota allocated to these vessels should be increased and all vessels of this type should be included on the list, as it is not open to all vessels at the moment, says the director general.
None of the three scenarios proposed by the ministry in its proposal to modify the royal decree satisfy the fishing sector. More precisely, the Government proposes to increase the current quota by 7%, 11% or 17%. “It’s perverse”, underlines Castell, “because in the three cases, the fleet of small Mediterranean craft remains practically as it is, i.e. 428 tonnes, or approximately 509 or 564, the difference East minimum“.
In the Valencian Community they are 240 THE ships of the minor arts of the Mediterranean, most of them originating from the province of Alicante, “the largest fleet of all and the most poorly treated”, underlines Castell.
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