The fishermen of the south of Gran Canaria, who are affected in the area of Castillo del Romeral and Arguineguín, will hold rallies in the ports to show their rejection of the “attack” that the Government's planning for the development of facilities represents for the sector. offshore wind generation. The Platform in defense of fishing and marine ecosystems will present allegations to the draft Royal Decree in which they will request that the regulations be paralyzed until the appeal they presented to the Supreme Court against the Maritime Space Management Plans (POEM) is resolved. ) approved a year ago.
These documents delimit the areas in which offshore wind can be developed in each of the five maritime demarcations in the south of Gran Canaria. The Platform will also meet with the government and opposition parties to convey to them the demand to know the results of the studies carried out on the impact that the implementation of wind farms that have been commissioned by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography would have on marine ecosystems. the General Directorate of Biodiversity, Forests and Desertification.
Furthermore, the fishermen criticize the refusal of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, to meet with them and consider that her continuous meetings "with the energy lobbies who are behind the implementation of offshore wind" constitute "a total lack of consideration ” to the primary sector. They have also advanced that they will demand a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, given the “total absence” of his department in the planning to implement offshore wind energy in island waters.
