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Navarro states trawler anglers are ‘the living significance of Malaga’.
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The Junta de Andalucía and the Vélez-Málaga Common council revealed assistance this Wednesday, January 8 for the strike of trawler anglers in the location.
Andalusian trawler anglers are on strike in demonstration versus EU cuts in angling days enforced by the European Union. The head of state of the Andalusian Federation of Angling Organizations, José María Gallart, has actually claimed he wonders about the propositions that the EU are open to expanding the variety of days if goals such as enhancing fleets or internet are satisfied.
Gallart claimed: ‘We can not neglect that we have actually had 6 years of continual cuts. We began in 2019 with 220 days per watercraft and at the end of 2024 we go to approximately 130 days’.
The contract by the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers to a 79% decrease in days mixed-up for Mediterranean trawlers currently minimizes the variety of angling days for trawler angling watercrafts to just 27 or 28 days in 2025.
Assistance from Malaga for its trawler anglers
Patricia Navarro, Andalusian Federal government delegate in Malaga claimed the EU limitations were ‘a fatality strike’ to the location’s trawler anglers in her speech beside the fish market in Malaga. She asked for the federal government to eliminate for the anglers’s reason, stating ‘the angling field can not be completely criminalised … particularly when it has actually additionally been presuming procedures and limitations for years’. She included that neighborhood anglers are ‘the living significance of what we have actually constantly remained in Malaga, individuals of the sea, and we can not relinquish that heritage’.
The Andalusian trawler fleet is comprised of 93 watercrafts spread out in between Almería, Málaga and Granada. 42 of these watercrafts are based in the district of Malaga, 21 of these in the port of Caleta de Vélez.
Although Malaga ports such as Caleta de Vélez, Fuengirola and Estepona are separated on opposing in the type of a strike, they are sustaining the strike activity as a result of the danger to their incomes from the brand-new EU limitations.
