The Fisheries Department has granted 62,680 euros in aid to cooperatives in the fishing and shellfish sector, as well as to various non-profit associations, in order to give a boost to the sector.According to the Government, these subsidies aim to support projects and actions that promote the development of the...
The Council of the Xunta has approved the first call for the new aid line from the Consellería do Mar, endowed with 4 million euros, aimed at the purchase of machinery and equipment to boost the recovery of marine ecosystems and the regeneration of shellfish banks.This pioneering order, co-financed by...
The Brotherhood of Fishermen of A Coruña has completed a new campaign for the planting of the smooth clam in the estuary of O Burgo, with the aim of recovering the existing biomass and reinforcing the continuity of the extractive activity in the subtidal banks of the area.According to the...
The Xunta de Galicia, through the Centro de Investigacións Mariñas de Galicia (CIMA), an agency that depends on the Consellería do Mar, carried out new deliveries of seed to different entities in the sector with the aim of supporting the recovery and regeneration of shellfish beds. Specifically, since August 21,...
The Consellería do Mar, in collaboration with the Cofradía de Pescadores de Arcade, takes a new step in the regeneration of the beaches of the San Simón cove through the delivery and planting of 103,500 units of European flat oyster seed.According to a statement from the Xunta, this intervention continues...
The Consellería do Mar has committed more than 138,000 euros between 2025 and 2026 for various projects promoted by the Cofradía de Pescadores de Mugardos (A Coruña), aimed at boosting artisanal fishing, the recovery of marine resources, and the modernization of the working means of its members.Representatives of the pósito...
The general director of Fisheries Development, Ángeles V. Suárez, visited this Tuesday the facilities of the bivalve mollusk seed hatchery in O Vicedo (Lugo), where she reiterated the commitment of the Xunta de Galicia to ensure a stable supply of seed for the shellfish sector in order to promote recovery...
The BNG has announced this Monday that it has reached an agreement with the Government for Social Security fees to be forgiven for shellfish gatherers when they cannot resume their economic activity, as is currently happening due to storms, which have caused high mortality of bivalves and other shellfish resources...
The BNG has announced this Monday that it has reached an agreement with the central Government to suspend the payment of Social Security contributions for shellfish gatherers during periods when they cannot resume their economic activity, as is currently happening due to storms that have caused high mortality of bivalves...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, and the head fisherman of the Pontedeume Fishermen's Guild, Diego Pérez, have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at the recovery of shellfish beds damaged by winter storms. The agreement amounts to approximately 400,000 euros and is co-financed by European FEMPA funds.The plan will...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development will allow the incorporation of colored lights (blue, green, and white) in traps intended for the blue crab fishery in the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. This is one of the technical modifications approved by the Junta with the aim of...
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 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 Rural Development, Livestock, Fisheries and Food will submit to a joint hearing and public information procedure two regulatory projects that introduce changes in the regulation of different activities in the fishing sector.On the one hand, one of the texts focuses on updating the order that regulates the...
The PP deputies Rosa Quintana, Irene Garrido, and Juan Bayón, along with the president of the PP of Vigo, Luisa Sánchez, have announced that the Galician Popular Parliamentary Group in Congress has registered a non-legislative proposal to implement extraordinary measures to support shellfish farming in Galicia and promote a scientific-technical...
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, has transferred to the representatives of the fishing brotherhoods a technical document prepared by specialists from the universities of Santiago (USC) and A Coruña (UDC), which proposes adjusting the social protection of shore shellfish gatherers when they are forced to stop due to...
The Technological Institute for the Control of the Marine Environment of Galicia (Intecmar) has given the green light to the reopening of 14 raft polygons and three shellfish harvesting areas after the improvement of the red tide episode that had been affecting the Galician estuaries in recent months.As highlighted by...
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 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has given the green light "exclusively" to clam harvesting on foot in the areas of the province of Huelva included in the Gulf of Cádiz fishing grounds, with the "exception" of Isla Canela and Barra del Terrón. The activity will be...
The Consello de la Xunta reported this Monday a proposal from the Consellería do Mar to allocate 4.3 million euros to conservation and recovery efforts for biodiversity and ecosystems linked to sustainable shellfish farming during the 2026-2028 period.These actions, which will have European co-financing, will be carried out by the...
The Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde, signed this Friday at the headquarters of the Barallobre Fishermen's Guild, in the municipality of Fene in A Coruña, a collaboration agreement aimed at the recovery of the shellfish beds in the area, which were badly damaged by the heavy rainfall recorded at...