Spain celebrates as 'excellent' the latest EC fisheries TACs and quotas awarded

Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

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The head of the Ministry of Food and Environment (Magrama), Miguel Arias Cañete, highlighted the ”excellent results achieved by Spain in negotiating total allowable catches (TACs) and quotas for 2014.” Read full article

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darragh
The EC must be mad.

If you want to see the effect that Spanish 'vacuum cleaners' have had on the fishing industry come to the west of Ireland.

When I was a kid you could literally pick up mackerel on the beach - now after 15 years of Spanish mackerel fishing if you catch a mackerel its a topic of conversation in the pub.

A couple of years ago a Spanish trawler was intercepted in Irish waters with 200 tons of illegally caught herring (i.e. over its quota) the trawler was escorted into Dingle harbour by an FP patrol boat and it promptly dumped all 200 tons in the harbour, this was in the middle of the tourist season and the place stank for days. When prosecuted the trawler captain stated that he was obliged under EC law to 'return' any fish caught over his quota to the sea and that nobody said he couldn't dump them in the harbour - he was acquitted.

The raping of the sea around Irish coasts by Spanish boats is so blatant that a Spanish trawler repair company has set up business here.

It's not as if the Spanish boats give any work locally - they come into harbour and unload their catches straight onto refrigerated Spanish trucks which then get the ferry to France from Cork. They used to through the UK but the Brits put a stop to it under hygiene laws.

Another Spanish trawler was arrested under slavery laws as its North African crew deserted the boat when it came into Dingle harbour as they hadn't been paid for six months. Once again the Captain was acquitted because the crew were said to have 'mutinied' instead of taking their grievance to a court.

Touched a nerve - you bet they have!!!
Aug 13th, 2014 - 11:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@1. Yeah, but you have no say. You're an EU puppet. Have a referendum and the EU doesn't like the result? Have another one. The UK fights on. We have lots of money. You don't. And we'll probably be seceding sometime in the next few years. You have nothing with which to frighten the spanish or the EU. You're not really a lot better, if at all, than eastern Europe. An impoverished country dependent on handouts. Ever tried getting some pride by standing up for yourselves? What are you best known for? Sending your “travellers” to the UK to steal. Don't you have laws against their activities in your country? Then why don't you inform our country?
Aug 13th, 2014 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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aussiesunshinee
*1 you sound more like a whinging pom than an Irishman!!!
Let´s look at Ireland´s fishing economical figures for 2013:
Export of Irish Fish stock :
France....26.000 tonnes........111 million Euros
Great
Britain....33.000 tonnes....69 million
Spain......q2.00 tonnes.....51 million
Germany...8.000 tonnes..21 million
Italy..... 3.000 tonnes...23 million
Nigeria....51.000 tonnes...40 million

Irish Market value:
Homemarket (fishing) 326 million Euros.
Exports (fishing) 489 million Euros.
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815 million Euros.

source. www.bim.ie

Try to be an Irishman and not a whinging pom
Aug 13th, 2014 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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paulcedron
“Sending your “travellers” to the UK to steal.”
says a jewish - british wannabe...LOL
Aug 13th, 2014 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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