Shellfish collectors at the bottom of the Vigo estuary began the year with trepidation. This heavy rains caused freshwater inflow in sandboxes and when workers go to their work areas faced high mortality. So much so that the group of more than 140 active bark women from the fraternities Vilaboa, Arcade and RoundelThey came from the Consellería do Mar to request a biological stop to “let the banks rest” and not be left “empty-handed”. The petition came to naught as Xunta chose to delve deeper into the case before activating the strike option, and the shellfish collectors continued to ramp up the activity as best they could. And while they continue to spot the same issues, the industry as a whole had a remarkable quarter in terms of production and sales. Actually, 9.5 million Euro turnover until March mark best record at the beginning of the year since the outbreak of the epidemic Epidemic related to the sale of different types of oysters and mussels. All this, first of all, thanks to the increase in average prices..
The situation in the Galician group and the Vigo sample was similar with a notable increase in value achieved. Thus, the neighborhood markets were sold out in the first three months of the year. 712 tons of oysters (slug, bicuda, fina, blond, japonica and ameixón) and wrinkledRepresenting a decrease of approximately 10%, turnover increased by 23% to 9.5 million.
in the region of Vigo (connecting the entire estuary to the south, A Guarda), permanent shellfish fishing at sea The amount sold increased by 57% with the contribution of the pedestrian group, Goes from 40,150 kilos to almost 63,300. But if the increase in commercialized resource was significant, it was even more so in terms of value, thanks to this increase in average prices: 82% more, at 983,560 euros at the doorstep of one million euros.
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to understand the data reflecting Fishing Technological Platform – Managed by the Consellería do Mar – all you have to do is take a look at the average achieved by the different genres. Only in the case of the Japanese oyster, which is hegemonic in terms of quantity sold each year, its price has increased by about 2 euros compared to the first quarter of last year (11.18 euros).
However, there are more notable cases. The fine, which in itself is usually paid more expensive, increased by more than 15 euros. €40.31; meanwhile the slug remained inside €20.32In the case of , five more, blonde or wrinkled, the increases were more modest, but also significant: 3.6 euros (14.8) in the first case and 4 (9.62) in the second case. In fact, the numbers reached by shellfish are the highest since the outbreak of the pandemic, when its business was severely impacted and has been on a slow recovery since then.
Before the COVID outbreak in Spain in 2020, the sale of these species Over 10 million euros in the first three months of the year. They did this in 2019, 2018 and 2017, when average prices were much lower but volumes exceeded 1,000 tons.