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Date Published: 18/03/2022
ARCHIVED - Fishermen call off the indefinite stoppage planned for Monday
Fishing boats in Andalucía will not start strike action this Monday because there is not universal support from Spanish fishing associations
Andalusian fishermen have decided to suspend an indefinite work stoppage they had planned for next Monday, March 21, due to a lack of consensus among the other regional federations in Spain.
The Galician and Asturian fishing fleets have “unexpectedly” refused to join the strike, according to the president of the Andalusian Federation of Fishing Associations (Faape) and second vice-president of the Spanish Fishing Confederation (Cepesca), José María Gallart.
This work stoppage was planned in response to rising fuel prices which make it unviable for fishermen to go out on the seas, and would complement a nationwide, indefinite strike by transport workers which started last Monday.
“On Monday there was a general consensus from the entire fleet to hold an indefinite stoppage from the twenty-first due to the lack of solutions from the government to the fuel crisis, and unexpectedly on Wednesday the Galician and Asturian fleets withdrew from the agreement,” Mr Gallart said.
For that reason, the Andalusian fleet will not carry out its planned strike in the end, something which Mr Gallart considers a “great disappointment”. In other parts of Spain, such as Murcia, a unilateral fishing strike has already begun but Andalucía seems reluctant to go it alone.
“The lack of consensus at a general level prevents the fishing sector from doing what we understood it had to do,” he said, while remaining confident that the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, “will take action on the matter” they hold a meeting with him next week.
Mr Planas assured this week that the rise in the cost of diesel will be addressed at the meeting of the Council of Agriculture Ministers in Brussels, where he will call for specific aid under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund or for any temporary stoppages that may occur.
He also plans to meet next week with representatives of the Spanish fleet to analyse the situation: “There are other measures that can be adopted at national level that are being analysed by the government, the autonomous communities and the sectors affected. It is a question of compensating for a significant increase in costs that could jeopardise profitability and the provision of food for the population.”
See also: Spanish supermarket shelves empty: transport strike and Ukraine crisis cause stock shortage
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