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The government delegate in Murcia, Rafael González Tovar and the Director General of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Fernando Curcio, Murcia have today in the operation, organized by the General Secretariat of the Sea of excess release of caged bluefin tuna in the The Gorguel area, from the Mediterranean Fisheries Company.
In this performance has been accompanied by the Head of the Agriculture and Fisheries of the Government Office, Francisco Parrilla, by the head of the Coastal Authority, Francisca Baraza, Head of Fish Inspection Service, Juan Luis Gil, and European Commission inspector, Claudio Viva.
With this measure, which sets a precedent in the Spanish fishing sector, the General Secretariat of the Sea shows its continued commitment to strict compliance with EU and international obligations on the control of the catches of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and Atlantic East and with respect to fishing quotas for this species.
Aid to fisheries sector
Moreover, the government delegate also informed of the assignment this year, the Government of Spain, 476,805 euros in aid for the fisheries sector, according to the results of the Fisheries Sector Conference held this February in Vigo under the chairmanship of the Minister of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, Elena Espinosa.
González Tovar indicated that some of these grants under the operational program of the European Fisheries Fund, which includes in its financial plans the amount of financing from the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs for the whole period 2007/2013.
This is an amount of 280,392 euros to act in advance of the amount of the annuity 2009.
Also, for the development of National Plans for Marine Farming Region of Murcia will be receiving 196,413 euros.
These grants represent an increase of 20.6 percent over the amount allocated to boost the fisheries sector by this Ministry in 2008.
Our region received 378,338 euros this year of the Directorate General of Fisheries Management, of which 224,000 correspond to support operational programs of the European Union and 154,024 are for marine farming plans.
The aid is the result of financial commitments in the Sectoral Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development, held on October 13 and November 17, 2008, and the Fisheries Sector Conference 17 November 2008.
Control and monitoring of fishing
The Government delegate also underlined the commitment of the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine with the sustainable management of fisheries resources and ensure in this line the industry's future.
It has also indicated that it is making a major effort to support the Spanish fishing fleet, as well as to combat illegal fishing and compliance with all regulations governing the sector.
In this regard, he informed the monitoring and control activities undertaken by the Area of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Government Delegation in Murcia, led by Francisco Parrilla, in the fattening of bluefin tuna in the region through Inspector of Fisheries and scientific observers.
In the Mediterranean Fisheries Company Ltd., the only activity currently developing bluefin tuna in Murcia have been carried out inspections of fishing vessels 4 downloads processors / freezers during the past winter season 2008/2009, without being detected infringement.
It has also made sacrifices monitoring of tuna fattening farm and five inspections of fishing activities, such as tuna transfer operations.
The Government delegate pointed out that the inspections have generally been made by the Area of Agriculture and Fisheries in 2008 in the five ports of the region, has opened a total of nine records for various infringements under Fisheries Act.
It has also affected the important work undertaken Control Service for Nature Protection (SEPRONA) of the Civil Guard, whose performance has highlighted the seizure last January of 121 kilos of anchovy fishing port the town of San Pedro del Pinatar of not meeting the minimum size allowed for capture and sale of 9 cm.
The load was delivered to a charity after being issued certified as fit for consumption.
The bluefin tuna fishery
Regarding the red tuna fishery, the delegate of the Government has indicated that in 2008 the Government of Spain implemented internal measures to control fishing effort in the fishery, much stricter than those arising from international organizations and their own European Commission, such as a specific census of licensed vessels, the distribution of opportunities for fleets and individual division within each, and the individual labeling mandatory for all the bluefin tuna.
It has also been subjected to rigorous controls in this fishery, with information on their activity, virtually real-time communication to the Commission, and greater monitoring of fattening farms installed in the country, being conditional authorizations tuna processing granted to them, the presence of an observer during the extraction process, the implementation of a control system that provides for the shipment of more than 40 observers throughout the fleet and the creation of 14 posts of driver port.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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