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Bonito revenue and landings drop
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Bonito landing. (Photo: Stock File)
Bonito revenue and landings drop
SPAIN
Thursday, August 13, 2015, 03:10 (GMT + 9)
Bonito landings at ports of Galicia fell by 30 per cent last month while revenues experienced a 17 per cent drop.
Although July is one of the months concentrating the largest volume of bonito auctions — together with August –, the landings recorded are far from the expected results.
The vessels unloaded 955 tonnes of bonito in July compared with 1,290 tonnes in the same month of 2014.
The turnover from tuna sales in northern Galicia also declined, but to a lesser extent, changing from EUR 4.6 million in July 2014 to EUR 3.8 million in the same month this year.
According to the data provided by the Fisheries Technology Platform, the port of Burela, which accounts for about 70 per cent of bonito landings in the community, recorded a 38.5 per cent fall in tuna auctions, which fell from 775 tonnes in July last year to 476 tonnes this year.
For his part, the President of the Association of Shipowners of Burela (ABSA), Miguel Neira, stressed that the catch volume in July was lower than that in the last two years.
“It is a rare coastal fishing activity. The owners have had to extend the tides because it is difficult to find the resource. In addition, the bad weather in recent days does not help us much either,” he added.
Meanwhile, the fish market in A Coruña experienced a drop of 14.8 per cent in bonito sales, from 372 tonnes sold in 2014 to 317 tonnes in 2015 while revenue declined by 7.5 per cent, to EUR 1.2 millions.
In total, the markets of Galicia auctioned 1,656 tonnes of tuna in the first two months of the coastal fishing season, 16 per cent less than in the same period of 2014, when 1,972 tonnes were traded. And the revenue fell by 5 per cent, to EUR 6.6 million, reported La Opinión.
The president of the Federation of Fishermen’s Associations of Cantabria, José Luis Bustillo, also reported that catches of the bonito coastal season dropped and the “expectations” that initially existed are not being met.
“Something is being fished, not much. It has failed, the fishing activity has declined in the last week and it is all that exists. It is not what was expected at first,” Bustillo stressed.
As to prices, he admitted that they increased a little, but “not much,” El Diario Montañes reported.
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By Analia Murias
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