The tuna fishermen of Lanzarote are very worried about "not being able to work" or "go fishing", as the fisherman Jose Alonso says in an interview this Friday morning on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero. He has been "stopped with his boat 'Izar alde' in Puerto Naos since last August." Furthermore, he acknowledges that the previous months of June and July, they have been almost "without fishing".
A "bad outlook" for the "six tuna fishermen left on the island" in this sector due to three prominent reasons: "The distribution conditions, the bad fishing and the broken agreement between Morocco and Europe last July," explains Alonso. "Our hope was to go to Morocco, but then this happened," he adds.
"The longline fishing sector of Lanzarote is among the most affected in the Islands," he says. "We have lost almost 30 tons of tuna," he reveals. Furthermore, "very little quantity of what we call 'la tuna' around here has entered," the fisherman assures. Therefore, "we made the decision to moor this month to see what would happen," he reveals.
"We are a minority and they don't take us into account for anything"
It is true that "we are a minority and they don't take us into account for anything," Alonso assures. He acknowledges that "we don't know how it can be solved and we don't know how to ask or move," he adds. We have been left with "taking advantage of aid," he points out. We ask that "they give us a hand," but "not around the neck, we are already drowning," he jokes. "Let them release us, we can't breathe anymore," Alonso warns lastly about the difficult situation they are experiencing.
