Siege of Fisheries Association received today by Assumption Crests – Digital Journal

 The National Association of Purse Seine fishing Producer Organisations will be received today in audience by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Asuncion Ridges, to discuss the fishing opportunities of sardines in 2016.
  
 

The association argues that the sardine catch in 2016 could increase to 16,900 tons if confirmed greater biomass that fish available if the catch limit for 2016 increase by 30% over the limit set for 2015.

According to a statement sent on Monday, the alert association, however, for the “fact that this new constraint is complex management ‘, because it relies on a” substantial increase in biomass available sardines’ .

But these are some of the proposals presented today, at 15:30, at the meeting with the minister of tutelage.

Producer organizations want to see clarified “all doubt about the future of this fishery, in particular, in that the fishing opportunities for 2016 concerns “.

The owners and crew will receive financial compensation for the ban on sardine fishing, which in the case of fishermen can go up to 27 euros per day, according to the decree published in the Official Gazette.

In July, the opinion of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES, in the English acronym) recommended that the total allowable catch (TAC) sardines in Iberian waters should be limited to 1,587 tons in 2016. This figure is about one-tenth permitted this year, already considered insufficient by the fishermen.

Despite the criticisms of industry associations and local authorities, the Minister of Agriculture, Asuncion Ridges said on Saturday that was not an option to extend the capture time or increase the share of sardines, otherwise in future be imposed a quota for the sardines even more damaging.

On Thursday, the Organizational Platform Nongovernmental for Fisheries argued that the sardine quotas should not be increased, considering that there should be an increase in research and that existing scientific opinions should be respected.

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