It is a “historic” settlement, in accordance with Minister Planas, which will increase hake catch quotas to 9,953 tons. 1,200 boats will profit from this settlement, which suggests growing the Commission’s preliminary proposal by 10%. % by 2023 and people of haddock, sole and Norway lobster are maintained
The Fisheries Ministers of the European Union (EU) have reached an settlement on Tuesday for the Total Allowable Catches (TAC) and quotas for 2023, which doubles the southern hake quota for Spain with respect to 2022, a rise that the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has described it as “historic”.
The minister has celebrated the settlement that the ministers have reached this Tuesday after a “lengthy, complicated and troublesome” negotiation from which Spain is happy and with a “historic” settlement for southern hake, which doubles its 2022 quota with an quantity world determine of 9,953 tons for 2023, “the most effective determine within the final 8 years and the second better of the century”.
Of this determine, which represents a big improve in comparison with the ten% improve proposed within the preliminary proposal of the European Commission, 1,200 ships from the autonomous communities of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country will profit.
The settlement has been reached after greater than 22 consecutive hours of negotiations on the second day of the assembly, preceded by an preliminary assembly on Sunday, the day the minister already predicted a “fishing marathon”.
20% improve in mackerel catches
The mackerel quota has additionally registered a 20% improve, which supplies for Spain 29,439 tons of this species caught by some 900 boats within the Cantabrian Sea and which suggests forsaking an episode of a advantageous of 5,500 tons of fines till final yr, in order that Planas has given this example as “recovered”.
In relation to haddock, sole and the useful models of Norway lobster, the minister identified that Spain has additionally fulfilled its goals by attaining the upkeep of the assigned fishing quotas within the face of the reductions proposed by the Commission, of 11% within the case sole, 10% for haddock and 36% for Norway lobster.
Another subject that Planas has described as “complicated”, because of the variety of Member States concerned, has been eel fishing, for which an settlement has been reached for a six-month ban repeatedly or in both in two intervals of three consecutive months, as requested by Spain.