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Portugal can fish 18,000 more tonnes in 2025 after agreement in the EU

by AI | 11.Dec 2024 | Europe in brief AI

In the early hours of Wednesday, the European Union’s Fisheries Ministers reached an agreement on fishing opportunities in the community waters of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean in 2025.

From left to right: José Manuel FERNANDES (Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Portugal), Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR (State Secretary for Fisheries, Portugal)

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Portugal will be able to fish more than 18,000 tons of fish in 2025, 560 tons more than this year, and, 32 years later, the Portuguese will be able to fish cod in Canada, the Government announced today.

Speaking to journalists at the end of a meeting of European Union (EU) government officials with the fisheries portfolio, in Brussels, the Secretary of State for Fisheries, Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar, said that the outcome of the negotiations was “quite positive” for Portugal.

Specifically, Portugal will be able to fish “561 more tons” of fish in 2025, raising the total quota to 18,419 tons, which equals “a monetary increase of 2.8 million euros”.

Quotas have grown, for example, in the fishing of North Atlantic swordfish, monkfish, and skate, which provides more opportunities for fishermen, the Secretary of State said.

Among the negotiations, a novelty, the Portuguese official said. More than three decades later, it will be possible to fish cod in Canadian waters.

Until today “these fishing possibilities were closed,” she said.

Cod is the main victory for the Government since Portugal can secure the fishing of just over 6,300 tons, but in this figure, there was a 26% reduction in the quota to fish off the Svalbard archipelago, in Norway, to 992 tons.

The European Union Fisheries ministers reached an agreement today on fishing opportunities in Atlantic and Mediterranean community waters in 2025.

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