Tag: Galicia

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Falklands' Beauchene Fishing orders a new trawler to replace “Baffin Bay” sunk in Vigo

  

  Galicia's Copemar and their Falkland Islands partner Beauchene Fishing have contracted Armón Vigo, an affiliate of the Asturian Naval Group Armon, for the construction of a trawler to replace the “Baffin Bay” which caught fire and sunk in the port of Vigo on its return from the Loligo season in the Islands.

• Monday, June 20th 2022 - 10:21 UTC

  Galician fishing companies demanding an increase in fuel bonus for the vessels

  

  The Galicia fishing lobby from Puerto Marin, Opromar, is complaining it is suffering the impact of sustained increase in fuel prices and is demanding action from the Spanish government.

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Spanish sailors in Falklands honor their fellow crew members from Villa de Pitanxo lost off Newfoundland

  

  Crew members from the Spanish fleet which operates with Falkland Islands licenses met on Monday in the capital Stanley for a poignant ceremony to honor their fellow mariners who went down with the fishing vessel Villa de Pitanxo, off Newfoundland.

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  “The worst tragedy of our fishing fleet in 38 years”, Spanish Fisheries minister

  

  Spain's Fisheries Minister Luis Planas has called the sinking of the “Villa de Pitanxo“ off the coast of Canada the ”worst tragedy for our fishing fleet in 38 years”. At least nine sailors have died and a dozen remain missing after the vessel fishing for black halibut sank on Monday night early Tuesday some 450 kilometers from Newfoundland.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  No more searching for survivors from Spanish fishing trawler

  

  Canada's naval authorities have stopped searching for survivors of the Spanish fishing trawler “Villa de Pitanxo” which sank abruptly off Newfoundland Tuesday, it was announced.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Mourning in Galicia following the loss of a trawler off Newfourndland: ten dead and eleven missing

  

  The Xunta of Galicia, the government of the northeast of Spain will declare a day of mourning in the region following the sinking of the trawler “Villa de Pitanxo”, off Newfoundland, with the loss of ten lives and another eleven who remain missing. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday in the midst of a North Atlantic storm, and despite a huge rescue effort only three out of 24 crew members managed to survive under hypothermal conditions.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Spanish trawler sinks in Canadian waters: 7 dead, many missing

  

  A Spanish-flagged trawler has sunk Tuesday off the Newfoundland coast in eastern Canada, killing at least seven people while rescue efforts were underway to find the rest of the crew. Three survivors have been found, and a lifeboat is still missing. Hence hopes are high others could have made it through.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2021 - 08:17 UTC

  Argentina will not participate in the Conxemar fisheries fair in Vigo next month

  

  Argentina will not be participating next October in this year's Conxemar 2021, one of the world's largest fisheries fairs that takes place in Vigo, Galicia. The information was made public in a brief release from the Argentine Federal Fisheries Council, CFP.

• Thursday, July 22nd 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Trawler operating in Falklands' waters is in Montevideo with positive COVID-19 cases

  

  An Indonesian crewmember from the Spanish flagged trawler “Playa de Galicia”, operating in the South Atlantic, died of Covid-19 and the vessel is currently in the port of Montevideo under quarantine conditions, with several other seamen hospitalized, according to the latest news from Uruguay and Spain, which have been difficult to confirm.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands' fisheries legislation reform, a view from Galicia

  

  A former Galician Fisheries Councilor has published a piece in a newspaper closely linked to the industry in the northwest of Spain, El Faro de Vigo, questioning the long term viability of new Falkland Islands' legislation, particularly the concept of Qualifying Companies and the fact that they must be at least 51% property of Falkland Islanders.