Spain is to ask the European Union for economic compensation for the damage done to the Spanish fishing fleet
Spain is to ask the European Union for economic compensation for the damage done to the Spanish fishing fleet, especially in Andalucía and the on the Canaries, following the EU rejection of extending the fishing agreement with Morocco.
The agreement had set to give 119 licences to European boats, 100 of them Spanish, in exchange for aid for the Moroccan fishing industry, and with its rejection the EU will now stop all European fishing in Moroccan waters.
Spanish Minister for the Marine Environment, Rosa Aguilar, said ‘We are talking about 70 boats and more than 500 direct jobs which will now be affected’. She has presented her concerns to her EU colleagues, as the Spanish government response is ‘we respect the decision, but we do not share it’. She made a call on the European Commission to start talks on a new treaty, but rejected the idea of a bilateral agreement being established between the Spanish Government and Morocco.
The Government has ordered all boats back to port ‘immediately’ to ‘avoid undesired consequences’.
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