The bluefin tuna harvest in the south of Gran Canaria begins to shape prices. In the markets of Las Palmas people begin to pay 26,5 euros per kilo while the Government of the Canary Islands recognizes that the artisanal quota is insufficient. The party of the mayor of Mogán, Onelia Bueno, has denounced that the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will continue to demand a larger and fairer quota for our artisanal fleet, although the current dialogue with the Ministry of Agriculture is positively valued. , Fishing and Food.
The CC deputy, Narvay Quintero, denounces the “poor increase” in the bluefin tuna fishing quota for the Canarian fishing sector achieved by the regional government for this year, which is satisfied with an increase of 1,8% and accuses Vanoostende of “repeated mistreatment” of professional fishermen. Quintero holds the Ministry responsible for lying to 18 Canarian boats, with tuna-pole fishing licenses that have left them out, for 4 consecutive years, of the fishery for some of the tuna, without any type of justification, "and for having lied to them on numerous occasions." in meetings with themselves, assuring them that they had it resolved in the next season and unfortunately it has been like this for 4 years,” says Quintero.
Quintero has blamed the Government of the Canary Islands for not demanding from the Government of Spain an increase similar to the global increase in the Spanish quota for this species by 10% confirmed by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT). Quintero positively valued the increase in the quota that the ICCAT has approved for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Government of Spain and described it as “inconceivable” that the Government of the Canary Islands “conforms without complaining or providing support to the fishing sector.” professional with a canary quota that is only crumbs. How is it possible that the Spanish quota increases by 10% and here in the Canary Islands there is not a 1,80% increase in the regional bluefin tuna quota,” he pointed out.
