The Ministry of Rural Environment and Agricultural Policy has launched a package of aid totaling 1.1 million euros aimed at strengthening aquaculture and supporting the marketing and processing of fish products. This line of subsidies, of a multiannual nature, will apply to investments made between 2026 and 2028.In the last...
The Ministry of Rural Environment and Agricultural Policy has approved a package of aid amounting to 1.1 million euros aimed at strengthening aquaculture and supporting the marketing and processing of fish products. This call for subsidies, of a multiannual nature, is designed to support projects that will be executed between...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has launched a new call for aid aimed at the Fishermen's Brotherhoods, their federations, and other public entities for an amount of 15,000 euros. This amount is added to the credit increase of 30,000 euros published on July 31, linked to...
The fishing sector of the Strait of Gibraltar has received the resolution from the General Secretariat of Fisheries regarding the incidental catches of bluefin tuna as "a step forward" regarding the request they had been making to be able to take advantage of these specimens, in a context where the...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has launched a new call for aid aimed at Fishermen's Brotherhoods, their federations, and other public entities for a total of 15,000 euros. This amount is added to the credit increase of 30,000 euros published on July 31, linked to the...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has disseminated this Tuesday in the Official State Bulletin (BOE) a resolution that sets the conditions for the incidental catches of bluefin tuna during the 2026 campaign. The measure affects the vessels included in all the modality censuses of the northwest Cantabrian, Mediterranean,...
The Department of Rural Environment and Agricultural Policy has announced today to the major patterns and the Federation of Fishermen's Guilds the study "Spatial analysis of the Asturian fleet based on GPS data," developed by the General Directorate of Maritime Fisheries through the Fishing Experimentation Center.The report aims to have...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has added 13 new entities to the Spanish Network of Knowledge Spaces for the Blue Economy (Reecea), coinciding with the first anniversary of its launch.This network aims to consolidate cooperation between public administrations, the business fabric, and organizations dedicated to knowledge and innovation...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing and Food Sovereignty of the Government of the Canary Islands has closed the resolution of the call for aid aimed at compensating, in the 2024 campaign, the additional costs incurred by operators of certain fishing and aquaculture products from the Archipelago, within the framework...
The general director of Maritime Fisheries of the Principality of Asturias, José Enrique Plaza, has responded this Tuesday to the criticisms of the Popular Party regarding the supposed absence of support for the artisanal fishing sector of Asturias in light of the 75% reduction in mackerel catches. Plaza has stated...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, and Food Sovereignty of the Government of the Canary Islands has initiated the repair and modernization works of the fishing dock of El Cotillo, located in the municipality of La Oliva (Fuerteventura).The intervention enters the execution phase after the signing this Tuesday of the...
The PP deputy from Asturias, Luis Venta, has demanded this Monday from the Government of the Principality the immediate implementation of direct economic compensations for the artisanal fishing fleet, after the collapse of 75 percent in the landings of xarda during the fishing season of 2025.During a visit to Bustio...
The 2026 gelidium algae collection campaign will begin this Saturday, August 1, with maximum quotas that will allow the extraction of 145 tons in the Pechón area (San Vicente de la Barquera); 92 in La Arnía and 103 in La Maruca (both in the Santander area), and 39 tons in...
The counselor of Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Environment, Juan José García, has communicated that the Board is going to withdraw from public exposure the General Fishing Plan disseminated on July 10, in light of the "unease generated" among the fishing community of the autonomous community, since this document is based...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has granted 2,454 additional days of fishing activity for 2026 to a total of 301 bottom trawlers from the Mediterranean that have incorporated "flying doors" devices or systems aimed at reducing the contact of the fishing gear with the seabed.The resolution, published this...
The anchovy population in the Bay of Biscay maintains "a favorable situation," according to the first data from the scientific campaign Bioman 2026, carried out in May by the Basque technological center Azti.The survey estimates a provisional biomass of 155,000 tons, clearly above the biological safety threshold set for this...
The General Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture has decreed the closure of the Iberian sardine fishery starting at 00:00 hours on Saturday, August 1, for the purse seiners, racú, and piobardeira vessels of the Cantabrian and northwest, once it has been verified that the quota assigned to this fleet in...
The counselor of Agriculture, Fishing, Water and Rural Development, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has launched a series of working meetings with the top representatives of the Andalusian fishing sector coinciding with the start of the new legislature, with the aim of ensuring the continuity of the "interlocution and permanent dialogue" that the...
The General Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture has decreed the closure of the Iberian sardine fishery for purse seiners, racú, and piobardeira boats from the Cantabrian Sea and northwest starting at 00:00 hours on Saturday, August 1, once it has been confirmed that the entire quota set for this campaign...
The latest edition of the scientific campaign Bioman 2026, developed last May by the Basque technological center Azti, concludes that the anchovy population in the Bay of Biscay remains in "a favorable situation."According to the provisional estimates of this study, the biomass of anchovy would reach 155,000 tons, a figure...
The Department of Rural Development, Livestock, Fishing, and Food has granted aid totaling 230,000 euros to the brotherhoods of Santoña, Laredo, Colindres, and Castro Urdiales, in order to cover part of the investments they have made, which together exceed 342,000 euros.This is stated in the resolution of the Department published...
The General Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture has decided to close the Iberian sardine fishery for purse seiners, racú, and piobardeira boats in the Cantabrian and northwest starting at 00:00 hours on Saturday, August 1, once the exhaustion of the quota set for this campaign has been verified.The sardine campaign...
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has urged this Wednesday to take advantage of the debate on the future of the Common Fisheries Policy to authorize the allocation of European and national funds for the construction of new vessels, understanding that the renewal of the fleet is...
Two organizations of fishing producers from the autonomous community will receive, between them, more than 55,000 euros, for the preparation and execution of production and marketing plans.The beneficiaries of the call have been the Organization of Artisanal Producers of Cantabria (OPACAN), which has been granted almost 43,500 euros, and the...
The Official Bulletin of Cantabria (BOC) has disseminated this Friday the order of the Ministry of Fisheries by which aid of 4.5 million euros is launched aimed at the transformation and marketing of fishing and aquaculture products in the Autonomous Community, with an execution horizon until 2027.These subsidies, co-financed by...