[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]• The deputy secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Water and Rural Development of the PP of Andalusia, José Carlos Álvarez, regrets the “arbitrariness” of the decisions of the socialist Executive in office that seriously harm the Andalusian fishing sector for the benefit of the Basque fleet. The PP of Andalusia supports the demands of the Gulf of Cádiz fleet against the cut imposed on the sardine fishing quota by the Socialist Government.
· “It is the difference between a president like Sánchez, who only thinks about his own benefit, and Juanma Moreno, dedicated from the first minute to offering solutions to the problems of Andalusians.”
· Regrets the “complicit silence of Swords and the PSOE-A, more concerned with justifying the dubiously legal means with which his boss intends to perpetuate himself in power than with working for the benefit of Andalusia.”
The deputy secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Popular Party of Andalusia, José Carlos Álvarez, has shown the “absolute support” of his party for the demands of the Andalusian purse seine fishing fleet in the face of the “continuous attacks by the Sánchez Government on its activity and, therefore, to their livelihood and that of hundreds of hundreds of Andalusian families that depend on it.”
During a visit to the fishing port of the Huelva town of Punta Umbría, José Carlos Álvarez has been able to see first-hand the “despair” of the fishermen of the Gulf of Cádiz by the “arbitrary” decision of the General Secretary of Fisheries of the ministry led by Luis Planas to cut the sardine catch quota in application of the optimization mechanism to benefit the activity of the Basque fleet.
According to the explanations received by the president of the Andalusian Federation of Fishermen's Guilds, Manuel Fernández, the ministry has not taken into account that the Andalusian fleet has not been able to fish in the months prior to September due to the high water temperatures "and they just applied the cut to us when they know that it is now when the water of the Gulf of Cádiz begins to cool down and sardines from Portugal begin to enter, so we can fish until the end of November.”
Álvarez assures that the mechanism activated by the Ministry is considerably reducing the profitability of companies and fishermen, who already accumulate more than two million euros of direct losses, to which we must add another million euros that the entire company loses. the auxiliary extractive industry.
“And what is even worse, there are many thousands of jobs that are at stake, as well as the way of life of hundreds of families and the survival of the sector itself,” he pointed out, “also heavily punished since the expiration of the fishing agreement with Morocco.”
Faced with this situation, José Carlos Álvarez has expressed the “total support” of the PP of Andalusia for the Andalusian fishermen in general and the purse seine fleet of the Gulf of Cádiz in particular and assures that “for every punishment that Sánchez imposes on our fishermen, the Partido Popular will throw a lifeline by listening very closely to the sector and working from the Andalusian Government to activate all the support measures that are necessary to guarantee the viability of the activity and, therefore, the way of life of our coastal municipalities."
“It is the difference between a president like Sánchez, who only thinks about his own benefit,” said Álvarez, “and Juanma Moreno, an honest president at the head of a close government focused on solving the citizens' problems.” In this sense, it stands out that the Board has regulated the temporary stops of the fencing activity to streamline management and so that the greatest number of workers and businessmen can access it, improving income and reducing costs respectively.
Likewise, he explained that in the last three years the government of the Junta has multiplied by three the aid to the fishing sector, going from the 22 million euros activated by the last socialist government, to the more than 76 million that the Moreno Executive has granted since 2019. More than four million euros have been allocated to the purse seine fleet, a figure that contrasts with the half million granted in 2017 and 2018 by the socialist executive, which did not contribute a single euro during the previous three years.
“The Government of Juanma Moreno has not stopped for a minute supporting and helping Andalusian fishermen,” indicated José Carlos Álvarez, “as is the case of those who work in the Gulf of Cádiz, for which the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries, Water and Sustainable Development has now opened a new call with more than one million euros to compensate for the next stoppage that will begin in the month of December.”
Espadas and the PSOE-A prefer to continue adrift from Sánchez's justifications
Thus, the vice-secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the PP of Andalusia has once again regretted the “complicit silence of Espadas” in the face of the “extreme situation that our fishermen are suffering.” He added that "it seems that he prefers to remain silent in the face of an unjust decision than to be brave and raise his voice in defense of the rights of Andalusians."
“He does not dare to do it for our fishermen,” he points out, “nor did he do it this Wednesday in Parliament to defend the need for a National Pact for Water with 40.000 million euros for investments, nor claim the water infrastructure that the State has pending in this community.” To conclude, José Carlos Álvarez has concluded that “it is clear that Espadas has chosen to abandon the Andalusians and continue leading the PSOE-A adrift from the justifications of the Sánchez agreements.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/ vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Statements by Jose Carlos Álvarez about fishing quotas in Andalusia
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