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Striped venus clams. (Photo: Cofradia de Pescadores de Santa Clara)
Andalusia will open striped venus clam fishery when recovery ‘guarantees’ appear
SPAIN
Friday, June 22, 2018, 01:50 (GMT + 9)
Undersecretariat of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development of Andalusia Rodrigo Sánchez Haro insists that to reopen the striped venus clam fishery of the Gulf of Cádiz "there must be guarantees."
In this regard, he restated in the Andalusian Parliament that fishing will be allowed again as soon as the scientific reports confirm that there has been an adequate recovery of the species.
Sáncher Haro informed that on Wednesday he had met with the technical group of the fishery management to analyze the results of the latest scientific reports of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), which confirm a "slow but progressive recovery of the fishery".
At the same time, he recalled that from the Board they are working "to ensure the future of this fishery, which will ensure the regeneration of the species and respond to families depending on this activity for their living."
With this objective, the undersecretariat said that they are correcting the mistakes of the aid order that enabled the Undersecretariat after the closure of the fishing grounds decreed in January, to be able to receive as many beneficiaries as possible.
This call for aid, worked and agreed with those affected, is worth EUR 1.8 million to compensate the sector. It contemplates, in particular, a fixed amount per vessel and full calendar month, determined according to the number of crew members enrolled in the vessel as of October 2, 2017, as requested by the sector itself. The amount per ship is EUR 500, plus another EUR 400 for each of its sailors. The aid stipulates, also in response to one of the interested parties' requests, that for its calculation, the shipowners who have worked on board the vessel can be counted as crew.
Operations in the stripped venus clam fishery are carried out 96 vessels of hydraulic dredge and 291 crew with base in the ports of Isla Cristina, Punta Umbría, Lepe and Ayamonte, in Huelva, and of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in Cádiz.
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