The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has decided to increase by 1.5 million euros the budget for the call for aid aimed at investments in the marketing and processing of fishery and aquaculture products, so that the total amount now amounts to 6.54 million euros. This increase...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, and the head fisherman of the Virxe do Carme Fishermen's Guild of Rianxo, Miguel Ángel Iglesias, have signed a collaboration agreement endowed with more than 850,000 euros aimed at the recovery of about twenty shellfish beds. The agreement foresees compensation for the regeneration...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, signed this Thursday with the head of the Fishermen's Guild of O Grove, María del Carmen Besada, the agreement aimed at the recovery of shellfish beds damaged by winter storms. This is the agreement with the largest territorial scope of the 18 already...
The Director General of Fisheries Development, Ángeles V. Suárez, has defended the actions promoted by the Ministry of the Sea against the expansion of the Asian alga Rugulopteryx okamurae, measures that, as she has underlined, have been designed and applied "with scientific rigor".During her speech in the Fisheries Commission, the...
The Department of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Food has approved the granting of 542,000 euros in aid for projects included in the Participatory Local Development Strategies (PLDS) promoted by the Fishery Local Action Groups (FLAGs) of the Valencian Community for the period 2021-2027.As reported in the Official Gazette of the...
The Minister of the Presidency of the Government of Cantabria, Isabel Urrutia, defended today before the plenary session of the European Committee of the Regions, meeting in Brussels, that the financing of the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) be maintained. She warned that the 67% reduction proposed by...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, signed this Tuesday with the Galician Cooperative Society Ría de Arousa a collaboration agreement aimed at the recovery of shellfish beds affected by the storms recorded at the beginning of the year.As detailed by the Xunta in a statement, this agreement has a...
The Consello de la Xunta gave the green light this Monday to the signing of four new agreements with the fishing guilds of O Grove, Rianxo, Redondela, and Pontedeume, aimed at the regeneration of shellfish beds damaged by the heavy rains recorded last winter.The total amount of these agreements amounts...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development issued this Friday, June 26, a new call for subsidies totaling 2.1 million euros, published in the Official Gazette of the Junta de Andalucía (BOJA), to support projects included in the Participatory Local Development Strategies of the Local Action Groups of...
The Ministry of Rural Affairs and Agricultural Policy has launched three lines of aid aimed at supporting projects promoted by local entities, companies, and non-profit organizations in the fishing areas of Asturias. In total, these calls have a global allocation of 678,464 euros and aim to support initiatives that favor...
The Plenary Session of the Congress of Deputies gave the green light this Thursday to an initiative promoted by Esquerra Republicana that censures the cuts planned in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and in the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund that the European Commission proposes within the framework of...
The Generalitat has launched the call for subsidies to compensate for the temporary cessation of activity of the fishing fleet of the trawling, purse seine, and surface longline modalities with a home port in Catalonia during 2026. The total budget amounts to 8,096,465 euros and may be increased by around...
The Xunta has given the green light to four new agreements with different guilds in order to undertake recovery and improvement work on shellfish beds after the mortality caused by the storms recorded at the beginning of the year.As agreed this Monday by the Consello de la Xunta, these new...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, and the fishermen's guild of Miño have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at the recovery of shellfish beds that were damaged by the recent storms.The Xunta Council approved the agreement this Monday, which will have shared financing through the European Maritime, Fisheries and...
The Minister of Fisheries, María Jesús Susinos, has called on the Government of Spain to expedite "with the utmost urgency" the processing of aid for fishing diesel and has expressed her rejection of the 67% cut in European funds allocated to fishing.As reported this Thursday by the regional Executive, Susinos...
The Sectoral Conference on Fisheries has approved this Tuesday the distribution among autonomous communities of 5.6 million euros from the General State Budgets, intended to cover aid for temporary fleet closures in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Cadiz fishing grounds during 2026.With this allocation, the total amount of the measure...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, has formalized a collaboration agreement with the Moaña fishermen's guild with the aim of promoting the recovery of shellfish beds damaged by the storms recorded at the beginning of the year. This action is part of the Extraordinary Plan launched by the Xunta,...
The Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Joaquín Buendía, held a meeting this Thursday with representatives of the fishing brotherhoods of the Region of Murcia, in which the current situation of the sector was analyzed and the main challenges facing regional fishing were reviewed.In the meeting, the regional official...
The Ministry of the Sea held a bilateral meeting this Wednesday in Alicante with representatives of the European Commission, taking advantage of the IV session of the Monitoring Committee of the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (Fempa).In the meeting, in which the technical general secretary, Marta Barreiro, and the...
The technical general secretary of the Ministry of the Sea, Marta Barreiro, and the general director of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Technological Innovation, Isaac Rosón, participated this Tuesday at the Casa Mediterráneo in Alicante in the IV session of the Monitoring Committee of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). In...
Spain has committed more than 717 million euros to date in public aid from the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) program 2021-2027, representing 47.5% of the total amount foreseen.Specifically, the Director General of Fisheries and Aquaculture Planning, Aurora de Blas, has highlighted the good pace of execution of...
The Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) will disseminate this Monday the call for aid from the Consellería do Mar aimed at strengthening the management of artisanal fishing. The deadline for submitting applications will open the day after its publication and will last for a full month.These contributions have an allocation...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, and the head fisherman of the A Pastoriza Fishermen's Guild of Vilanova de Arousa, Manuel Rosalino Díaz Calo, signed a collaboration agreement this Friday for the productive recovery of the coastline after the shellfish mortality caused by the storms at the beginning of...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, together with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), have launched once again the scientific campaign "Platuxa" in the regulatory area of NAFO (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization), in order to analyze the demersal fishery resources of commercial interest for the Spanish fleet in the...
The Consello de la Xunta has given the green light to two new collaboration agreements with the fishing guilds of Cabo de Cruz, in Boiro, and Vilanova de Arousa, through which more than 1.8 million euros are jointly allocated to the recovery of shellfish beds.With these additions, the number of...