The fishing fleet, which will remain moored in port until next Wednesday in the situation arising from price increases, It has urged the government to take action now.
The president of the Spanish brotherhoods and patron saint of Burela (Lugo), Basilio Otero, recalled that the mooring will be extended until next Wednesday, day in which a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, is scheduled to seek solutions.
“Let’s hope that a good result will come out of the meeting and from the government itself, if we don’t rig there won’t be any fish or anything else”he points out.
Likewise, Basilio Otero points out that the measures are already “late” and summons the State Executive to make decisions to solve the situation of rising prices.
In addition, the larger pattern of Burela points out that another “important factor” for mooring it is the fact that, due to the transport strike, the fish is not being harvested in longas. “It’s silly to throw away the fish with the hunger that exists in the world,” he stresses.
Specifically, the Spanish brotherhoods explained on Friday that, given the rise in fuel, an agreement was reached in the Executive Committee and the Permanent Commission of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Guilds so that, “urgently and extraordinary”, they remember request the mooring of the entire Spanish fleet until the meeting with Planas “due to the very serious situation that the fishing sector is going through”. The strike affects some 200 brotherhoods and 40,000 members, almost 9,000 of them are boat owners.