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Mussel production grew in 2014
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Mussel farming. (Photo: T.Ezcurra)
Mussel production grew in 2014
SPAIN
Monday, August 10, 2015, 23:20 (GMT + 9)
Galicia produced over 235,000 tonnes of mussels last year, 28 per cent more than in 2013, for a value amounting to around EUR 100 million, informed the head of the Secretariat of Rural and Marine Affairs of Xunta de Galicia, Rosa Quintana
Out of the produced volume, which accounted for 95 per cent of all the Galician aquaculture production, more than 58,000 tonnes, which were sold for more than EUR 25 million, came from the region of Barbanza, stated Quintana during her participation at the XIV Galician Mussel Exaltation of Cabo de Cruz, which was held in the town of Boiro, A Coruña.
These are “figures that are significant for the raft farming sector with large presence in this area and that affects a mussel canning industry, also settled here, which is also important,” said the Galician official.
“A qualitative fact lies in the importance and fundamental nature that miticulture has to our estuaries and coastal areas,” she added.
Quintana stressed the importance of the mussel farming sector and its role as a “strategic area” within the primary production of Galicia, so she ensured it will be granted preferential support. The first steps will be given by the new Aquaculture Act, “whose first stage will be adopted soon after months of work by the General Secretariat of Marine Affairs,” she said.
In addition, she highlighted the “economic, administrative, organizational and operational” support the Galician government offers to the sector.
From the economic point of view, she recalled that more “than 93 per cent of the cases of aid to the Galician aquaculture that were approved were projects in this segment of the activity, contributing more than EUR 20 million in recent years”.
And at the administrative level, greater legal certainty has been granted to more than 3,300 rafts installed in Galicia “by resetting its concession counters.”
In terms of its organization, the activity has been structured by creating the Mussel Commission, and at the operational level, there has been overture given to “multiple actions intended to make the duty to develop monitoring activities to control the presence biotoxins by chemical method more suited to Galicia,” Quintana concluded.
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