Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, louis planesdeveloped this Wednesday, before the plenary session of the House of Representatives, Spain will object to the closure of fishing areas to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Fishing drag.
This was expressed in a speech given by the Government during the control session in the Lower House, after condemning the PP and BNG for the Government’s lack of strength in defending access to these fisheries areas and to claim compensation for industry.
Planas, the European Commission’s decision “deeply unfair for the fisheries sector” and that the scientific information supporting the European Executive Board’s decision was “inadequate and outdated”. “The most modern available was on the Commission’s table and was not taken into account,” he said.
He also criticized there is a “balance problem” in this veto because, he assured, “the government advocates for the health of the ocean bottoms and seas, but this must be done in proportion to the interests of fishermen.”
The veto, passed on September 15, affects trawling in 87 protected areas in the communal waters of the Northeast Atlantic; In practice, this means vetoing the catch of the species in waters greater than 1,500 meters deep.