Portugal will be able to fish more than 18 thousand tons next year, but there are fish, such as horse mackerel, with much smaller quotas.
That’s 560 tons more than this year and, 32 years later, the Portuguese will be able to fish cod in Canada, the government announced in the early hours of Wednesday. The measure comes from the European Union.
The Secretary of State for Fisheries, Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar, cited by Lusa, guaranteed that the result of the negotiations made in Brussels he was “quite positive” to Portugal.
To this day “these fishing opportunities were closed“, said the minister. Now, Portugal will be able to fish more than 18 thousand tons of fish next year.
Quotas have also increased, for example, for fisheries swordfish of the North Atlantic, the anglerfish and the citizenswhich provides more opportunities for fishermen, said the Secretary of State.
But not everything is good news: there is fish who were left fora of the “positive” agreement, and for which the share fell drastically. O horse mackerel, for example, registered a drop of 66%, which constitutes “a serious problem”, points out Luis Vicentegeneral secretary of the Association of Industrial Fishing Shipowners, at
Also the Sardinian, o up and the green These are fish whose quotas are reduced, he explains.
To , Luís Vicente also said that these measures will not influence the price of codwhich in Portugal and “will probably increase in 2025”, since most of the fish we use is imported.
Furthermore, he says that, in general, there is a global decrease in fishing quotas. “At a global level, especially here in the Northern Hemisphere, what we expect is a reduction in catches aggregated across all countries in 2025, so I would not expect a price reduction due to an increase in supply, on the contrary”, he says.
