Migdalia Machín, regrets that Ángel Víctor Torres, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Alicia Vanoostende; and Dolores Corujo, have "dedicated themselves to strolling through Agrocanarias", the Fair held this weekend in San Bartolomé, together with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, "without asking him for explanations for the paralysis of bluefin tuna fishing."
A decision that "has raised blisters in the sector, since on Friday, April 28, the bluefin tuna fishery in the islands was closed and those who had not reached the entire quota can no longer go out to capture it", the party reports.
“Lanzarote has not even come close to the stipulated tons, they have left the fishermen without going out to fish and therefore, without work until it opens again”, criticizes Machín, who complains about "the double face of the PSOE, that on the one hand, "presumes to promote the primary sector", while on the other, "ignores the island's fishing sector."
In addition, "forcing fishing boats to return to port" to, supposedly, "count the catches", although "they will no longer be able to return to work even if they have not covered the quota", they confess.
“What the State Government and the Cabildo are doing with the Canary Islands fleet makes no sense"
“What the State Government is doing with the Canary Islands fleet makes no sense, and even less that the Cabildo is allowing it”, Machín emphasizes, recalling that this stoppage occurs just at the moment when the most tuna pass through the waters of the islands.
"What remains to be known is whether the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will end up extending that provisional closure of the bluefin tuna fishery until the end of the season on June 14", she argues.
If so, "the season for fishing this species of tuna is considered finished, with all the damage that this entails for the sector, for the economy of Lanzarote and all of the Canary Islands", she makes clear.
