Agriculture extends fishing days for the Mediterranean fleet by 13 days to ensure provide at Christmas | Economy | EUROtoday

Spanish trawl fishermen will be capable of perform their exercise an additional 13 days within the Mediterranean within the the rest of 2025, which will increase the typical variety of days accessible per vessel from 130 to 143. The announcement comes at a time when greater than 90% of the fleet, of 557 boats, is prohibited from going to sea and supplies, within the phrases of the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, peace of thoughts to the sector, along with guaranteeing the availability of fish for Christmas. Since 2020, European Union (EU) laws have progressively diminished fishing days searching for extra sustainable fishing. However, administrations and the fishing sector warn that the variety of days at present licensed makes the exercise economically unsustainable. The decision, communicated this Monday by Planas, will probably be utilized as an emergency measure. For 2026, the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers will talk about, at its assembly on December 11 and 12, the ultimate planning.

The extension communicated by the ministry quantities to 7,339 whole further days, which represents a mean of 13 extra days per ship. The distribution of as of late will probably be adjusted to the actual scenario of every vessel and will probably be communicated individually by the State Administration by means of an official notification. Planas defined that getting this enhance “has been the result of intense technical work” that required detailed monitoring of the fleet’s exercise and “maximum use of the compensation mechanisms authorized by the European Union.”

The minister has argued that in current days, though the interval wherein the Mediterranean fleet can fish has not but elevated, the availability of fish has been assured. Even so, he welcomed that the measure communicated at present permits us to enhance planning for the approaching weeks.