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Bonito landings continue to rise
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Bonito capture. (Photo: Stock File)
Bonito landings continue to rise
SPAIN
Thursday, September 25, 2014, 23:50 (GMT + 9)
In 2014 bonito landings in Galician ports increased nearly 45 per cent compared to the average of the last five years and the turnover of landings increased by 21 per cent.
This was announced by the head of the Undersecretariat for Rural and Marine Affairs of Xunta de Galicia, Rosa Quintana, in the Parliament of Galicia, where it was also noted that compared to the volumes of bonito unloaded in 2013, this year there has been an increase of 22 per cent, to 3,232 tonnes. And she said that the turnover recorded an increase of almost 7 per cent.
Quintana pointed out that during the bonito season, fishermen unload almost all the catches in Galician port terminals and the trading activity is concentrated between the ports of Burela and A Coruña, accumulating 60 per cent and 30 per cent of sales, respectively.
In her opinion, “a totally positive coastal fishing activity is being developed and again it became a profitable and positive alternative to our fleet.”
For the minister, bonito fishing is one of the most advantageous activities for the independent fishing industry as it is “a fully sustainable, cost effective, environmentally-friendly and selective fishing activity because each bonito is individually caught using a hook,” the Xunta reported.
In addition, she stressed that it is a fishery that poses “an example of diversification” because it allows vessels to ration quota consumption of other resources.
Furthermore, Quintana made it clear that the Galician Government requested technicians and scientists to assess mortality rates of cockles in local estuaries, especially in that of Arousa.
And she requested experts of the Technological Institute for the Control of the Marine Environment of Galicia (INTECMAR) must be given time to work before drawing conclusions on the causes of mortality.
The secretary recalled that in the last two winters the occurrence of adverse weather conditions increased, with heavy rain that hit bivalve living near the mouths of rivers, such as cockles.
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