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Decisions on fisheries management are based on the best available scientific advice
Strong support for data collecting efforts Dña. Alicia Villauriz Iglesias, the Secretary General for Fisheries, has a long history at top levels of the administration of the Spanish agriculture, fisheries, and food sectors with experience both from within Spain and outside. She outlines here some of the issues facing the Spanish fisheries sector and the measures her administration is taking to address them.
Dña. Alicia Villauriz Iglesias, Secretary General for Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food of Spain
Regulations on the ban on discards and the obligation to land all catches have been in force across the EU since last year. What has been the impact on the Spanish fleet? How is compliance with these regulations monitored and what happens to fish that is landed but that cannot be sold (e.g. undersized specimens)? The first year of full implementation of the landing obligation,
2019, has been positive for the Spanish fleet, since the main objective, which was the maintenance of the fishing activity avoiding the well-known “choke effect”, was possible, due to the efforts made for the implementation of the necessary mechanisms of flexibility. However, additional progress is needed in the future years, for instance, with the improvement of selectivity of the gears. The fish which cannot be sold for direct human
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