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Fishermen at the port in Vigo, Galicia. (Photo: Julieta Fonterosa/Copyright: FIS)
Galicia defends individual quota management through joint formulas
SPAIN
Tuesday, December 02, 2014, 02:50 (GMT + 9)
The head of the General Secretariat of Marine Affairs of Xunta de Galicia, Juan Maneiro, argues that the allocation of individual quotas per boat managed under joint formulas per associations or guilds or per vessels or companies, “can be a formula that increases the capacity of developing a fishing activity according to the quotas.”
At the Parliament’s 8th Commission, the official pointed out that such formulas could give Galicia “good fruits in the future, especially in the possibility of planning the business activity by shipowners”.
Maneiro considers that quotas can be prevented from being exceeded by easing quotas by the European Union (EU) in order to address the need to unload the catches under the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
In addition, he believes it is necessary to consider that the excess in quotas generally takes place as a result of a difficult counting management due to the duration of the tides; the global numbers of hake and the complications of calculating the amount caught due to the size of the catches.
To Maneiro, it is possible to deduct the species against another one’s quota, and provide some safety and security.
In addition, he stressed that the fishing fleet is actually detrimental to the sanctions for overfishing that occurred when there was no ‘joint management’.
To ease the sanctions for exceeding mackerel catch limits for 2012, the Galician government worked to make numbers flexible as well as payment terms and legal basis.
He also analyzed all data and managed to reduce the volume by 18 per cent, that is to say from 79,728 tonnes to 65,429 tonnes, the Xunta reported.
On the other hand, the Galician secretary explained that to qualify for aid from the central government given the closure of sardine fishery, it is appropriate to provide the resource dependence.
The data show that in 2013, ot of the 428 Galician vessels with the fishing gear known as ‘xeito’ on its permex (operating permit), only 57 boats had more than 10 per cent of its revenues linked to this gear, and only 42 units had more than 20 per cent of its revenues linked to this gear (implying that sardine capture was considered ‘preferred fishery’).
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By Analia Murias
editorial@fis.com
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