Before the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, fleet vigo an innovative couple supported FP Hand in hand with the Maritime-Pesqueiro do Atlántico Polytechnic Institute. His idea was to train students seeking a future at sea on trawlers and longline ships. On this occasion it was for the higher cycle of the marine mechanic and a demand that had accumulated over several years among shipowners. The lack of generational change in the profession, especially in ship command, has been a problem for a while., but it gets worse with each generation, this was also evident at the benchmarking event in Vigo, the industry’s European fishing capital. There is uncertainty among Conxemar participants over this issue, which they believe will worsen in the coming years as current officials retire.
Juan Barreiro, the person in charge of Moradiña, recalls: “It’s getting more and more complex”. “We can’t complain right now because we’re working on it. stone pit” he comments. They are in a similar situation at Freiremar, a shipping company that owns nearly a dozen ships, and they are “waiting” because, as export manager Sergio Mosquera says, “they’ve been in the company for a long time”.
But it is precisely this common truth that, in the industry’s view, will cause a setback in the future. “In five years, we’re all going to have a terrible problem because if you look closely, most of the captains are about 50 years old,” says Adrián Fernández of Gandón. According to that, generation change issue is a “difficult” situation and although the industry is trying to find a solution to it, for example, the start of dual vocational training in Vigo, the sea still does not attract the attention of young people.
Actually, Conxemar was the come and go of young students from the institute nowadays located in Beiramar., invited by companies, as was Gandón himself. “We’re making transitions easy so they’re close to the industry,” says Fernández.
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Many Vigo fishing boats operate in communal waters, but many operate outside. The long-haul fleet is the one that faces the most problems due to long tides and also another fact pointed out by Guardeses Longline Organization (Orpagu) manager Juana Parada. “There are situations where the almost only solution is to hire crews from other countries, but there we run into another problem,” he explains, “because we need homogeneity with qualifications so they can get on board.”
Managing a fleet of fifty longlines, Parada’s view is the view of many in the industry. “This will open up a whole range of possibilities for us,” he adds, “of course we always choose to get our people here.”
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