Undersecretary of Marine Affairs Rosa Quintana visited the terminal Ticpesc installed in Portonovo fish market, Sanxenxo. (Photo: Xunta)

21 scales to be set up in Galician ports to streamline landing procedures

SPAIN
Friday, September 21, 2018, 00:40 (GMT + 9)

Xunta de Galicia plans to install 21 scales in Ticpesc terminals of different ports of the Galician coast in order to provide functionality and agility to these ATMs. This will allow marine professionals to weigh fishing and shellfishing products while the catches are being unloaded in addition to issuing documents related to their activity.

This was highlighted by Undersecretary of Marine Affairs Rosa Quintana during her visit this week to the Ticpesc terminal installed in Portonovo fish market, one of the two terminals that has this weighing system. The system was installed as a test in the cashier of this market and in Bueu in order to evaluate its operation and the possibility of its extension to the rest of the network.

The undersecretary also detailed that of the 21 scales that are planned to be installed, 18 are for ATMs that are in operation in the ports of Fisterra, Ferrol, Portosin, Camariñas, Baiona, Laxe, San Cibrao, Malpica, O Vicedo, Combarro, Aguiño, OR Barqueiro, Mugardos, Canido, Santa Cristina de Cobres, Foz, Espasante and Rianxo. Another three of them that are planned to be set up are for Corme, Muxía and Corrubedo ATMs.

During the visit, Quintana highlighted the usefulness of these ATMs, since they allow the sector access to electronic administration so they do not have to travel to the offices of the Xunta to carry out the corresponding tasks of their daily activity.

With electronic TICPESC cards, users can access the services offered by the terminal. (Photo: Xunta)

In this regard, she explained that the Xunta has also planned to install nine more Ticpesc ATMs in the Galician docks, which will be added to the 58 already existing. The ports in which they will be installed are Muxía, Corme, Corrubedo, Raxó, Tragove, Lourizán, Barizo, Camelle and Oza. In addition, she said that the software of 30 ATMs already installed will be improved and updated to boost its operation.

According to Quintana indicated, this is a sample of the commitment of the Xunta to promote the improvement in the traceability of fishery products, that is to say, the identification of their history from capture until it reaches the consumer.

Therefore, the Galician Government seeks to continue promoting this network of terminals so that sea professionals are served 24 hours a day, 365 days a year without depending on the schedules of the offices of the associations, the markets or other entities. In fact, the head of Marine Affairs said that last year about 66,800 documents were issued in these ATMs and so far this year, about 44,500 have been performed.

Among the documents that the sector can obtain through these ATMs are those of transportation, which cover this process from the unloading port to the fish market, if it is in a different place from the unloading spot. Also the alternating fishing gear documents intended to declare the gear dispatched by the vessel for the practice of the fishing activity.

In addition, documents of origin are also issued at the terminals, to declare the establishment in which the collection tasks are to be carried out, as well as to verify their sanitary situation.

Other documents obtained in the Ticpesc are those of registration to move the bivalve mollusks from the port where the unloading activity is performed to the treatment plant, the expedition centre or the processing industry.

Quintana also highlighted the incorporation of users of this tool, which went from about 500 in 2010, when they began to operate, to about 4,000 in 2017.

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