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ESPAÑA – El Gobierno cierra la Pesca de Anchoa para cerco al sur de Fisterra para el resto del año

SPAIN – The Government closes the purse seine fishing for anchovy south of Finisterre for the rest of the year

North Cantabrian fleet had only 1.14% of the Spanish quota, 52.64 tons compared to over 4,500 ships in the Gulf of Cadiz.

Crew of a fishing guard boxes Anchovies newly landed in a port.

The General Secretariat of Fisheries announced yesterday the fleet North Cantabrian closure of the anchovy fishery for the area IXa-from Finisterre to the sur- for the remainder of the year. “After analyzing data on catches and sales notes held by the General Secretariat of Fisheries available, and precautionary measure should be provisionally close the fishery”Collects the resolution published in the Official Gazette.

“Spend what has to happen. It's expected to share scarce we were assigned”, Rpresentante particular the Association of Shipowners Siege of Galicia (Acerga), Andrés García. The Galician fleet had only 1.14% of the anchovy quota for zone IXa (52.64 tons), compared to 98.86% (4,565 tons) that the Ministry of Agriculture awarded the Gulf of Cadiz.

The sector ensures feel stifled by the lack of opportunities for fishing in its main species for this exercise. At the end of the Anchovy 3,000 kilos per vessel per week Sardina set for the recovery of the fishery, the lack of publication of mackerel quotas, or xarda despite the opening of the fishery on 25th or add delay in the notice of the order of mackerel, for which they also expect their breakdown by ships.

Purse qualify this situation “untenable”Although accepted with resignation. “We can not do anything else, is what is”Garcia said. “If still closing fishing opportunities not know what they intend to do. This is a stick more”He added Sada also larger pattern.

Acerga, which comprises most of the community purse -112 of the 152 vessels in the register of fishing vessels from Galicia, now expects the Government to fulfill his promise and get more quota for the remainder of the year . Something that no longer has the President of the Association Siege of Pontevedra, José Manuel Saavedra, who criticized the closure came just when the fleet was leaving almost entirely this Monday after a month and a half without activity. “And it will already without some sort to fish”, lamented, while recalling that at the moment there xarda on the coasts. “The sector is not to be in crisis, they have made the crisis reaches us”Saavedra said.

SOURCE: Laopinioncoruna.es

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