Laredo (Cantabria) - The fishing fleet of Cantabria is concerned about the low number of mackerel catches (mackerel), a fishery that accounts for between 50 and 70 percent of the annual income statement of the more than 80 boats dedicated in the region to minor arts.

 

A setback to which, as explained by the president of the Federation of Fishermen's Guilds of Cantabria, César Nates, is added the fact that the sale price of mackerel (verdel) in the market has decreased by 40 percent compared to the year past. Fish that is intended for fresh consumption has been dispatched in Laredo at 0.99 euros/kilo in the last few hours. Since the first blows of the campaign began last week, some 50,000 kilos of the more than 3,000 tons of quota that corresponds to the fleet of other arts in Cantabria will have been consumed.

 

The problem is that the fish enters explosively and is detected at night, but when daylight comes and the gear does not take the hook as it sticks to the bottom. A circumstance that, according to Nates, is happening widely in the Bay of Biscay, also to the French fleet.

 

 

The difference is that, if the seiners have other fishing options during the season, the hook fleet lives on mackerel (mackerel), although they can then catch one or two bonitos that come inshore during the summer. For this reason, the fishermen of this art are waiting for the situation to reverse in the next few days and they can start fishing at full capacity.

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