Spain will appeal to the European Justice the closure of trawling fishing grounds

MADRID, 5 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has advanced this Wednesday before the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies that Spain will appeal to the Court of Justice of the European Union the closure of fishing grounds to trawling.

This has been assured in his speech during the control session to the Government in the Lower House, after reproaching the PP and the BNG for the lack of forcefulness of the Government to defend access to these fishing grounds and demand compensation for the sector.

Planas has assured that the decision of the European Commission is "profoundly unfair to the fishing sector" and that the scientific information that supports the decision of the European Executive is "insufficient and outdated". "The most modern available was on the Commission's table and has not been taken into account," she said.

Likewise, he has criticized that there is "a problem of balance" in this veto because, he has assured, "the Government defends the health of the ocean's bottoms and seas, but it has to be done proportionally with the interests of the fishermen."

Adopted on September 15, the veto affects trawling in 87 protected areas in community waters of the Northeast Atlantic, which in practice means vetoing the capture of species in waters with depths greater than 1,500 meters.