The Galician fence complaint may only operate four months for lack of fees

The Minister of Agriculture access the sector meet next Monday to hear their demands – The fleet warns that the situation is “untenable”.

The Galician fence complaint that failure to share its main species (sardine, mackerel and mackerel) will allow fish “only” four months this year. So pick the letter sent by the Shipowners' Association Siege of Galicia (Acerga) -and the socialist MEPs also forwarded to the popular-, which shipowners warn that the situation of the fleet is “untenable” by the reduction of quotas compared to last year.

Purse community suffered this year a 50% in fishing opportunities for mackerel in VIIIc area-from the Bay of Biscay to Fisterra and a reduction of 25.5% in Mackerel. These decreases the strong restrictions on the fishery Sardina, immersed in a joint management plan with Portugal, which sets the quota by 19,000 tonnes for both countries join.

Indeed, the Minister of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, agreed yesterday to hold a meeting on Monday taking advantage his visit to Galicia with Galician purse, after the industry had asked him at the end of the week a meeting to discuss his problems . “We finally have some good news. Now we'll see if it works for something”Said the representative of Acerga, Andrés García, who claimed no news; however, the President of the Xunta, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, which the association also requested a meeting with the same objective.

The larger pattern of Sada also stated that the Minister will address not only the consequences of the reduction of quotas, it will also move its concern about the detective pressure to ensure suffer. “The tax assessments many owners, that will result records sanction, can cause the ruin of the sector”Garcia said. “We want you to let us live. If you want our fleet disappears, the measures they are taking what they get”He added.

The Galician fence claimed for years that Brussels increase the quotas of the main species, calling “inadequate”. “A boat 5,000, 10,000 or 15,000 kilos of xarda, for example, what results will you have? Almost a sport fisherman catches more”He said Garcia, who enlists the help of the Spaniards to try to change the basis for allocation of quotas in the European Union (EU) MEPs. “We need European trabajéis for a dues increase, either varying the principle of relative stability [in relation to the treaty on the EU assigns each member state a fixed percentage of certain quotas for each of the species] or whatever, but this way Galicia soon lose most of the purse seine fleet”Collects the letter he sent Acerga the Socialists, who also sent to PP. Not so those responsible for AGE and BNG, with whom I had meetings where and told them their situation.

Indeed, the Socialist MEP José Blanco claimed over fishing quotas for the siege yesterday.