Stop to fresh fish at the table in the Tyrrhenian Sea due to the start of the fishing ban which leads to the blocking of the activities of the navies from Genoa to Livorno, from Naples to Gioia Tauro and Palermo. But also in Cagliari .
This was announced by Coldiretti Impresapesca on the occasion of the launch of the measure which will stop operations in the ports of Liguria, Tuscany, Campania, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia from 1 to 30 October . From 3 October, however, those in the stretch of coast between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas that goes from Brindisi to Reggio Calabria will resume. The area of Rome where activities had already stopped in June is exempt.
As last year, explains Coldiretti Impresapesca, in addition to the fixed periods of detention, fishing vessels will have to carry out additional days of detention depending on the fishing area and the type of resource fished. Despite the interruption of activity, on the tables of the affected regions – specifies Coldiretti Impresapesca – it will still be possible to find Italian products, from blue fish such as anchovies and sardines, to swordfish, and also sea bass, sea bream, sole, mantis shrimp, clams and mussels coming from small-scale fishing boats, from dredgers and from aquaculture, even if it is clear that in many areas more suited to tourism the lack of the entire availability of fish represents a problem.
The advice is, however, to carefully check the information on the label on the counters of fishmongers and supermarkets, but to ensure "real transparency, it would be necessary to arrive at compulsory labeling of the origin even in restaurants", states the organization.
The closure this year comes at a difficult time for the fleet, reports Coldiretti Impresapesca, with «the surge in the price of diesel which in the last three months has seen an increase of +25%, up to 90 cents per litre. But the new guidelines of the EU Commission also have an impact, starting from the ban on the trawling system and the restriction of fishing areas with cuts of up to 30% of the current ones, with tight deadlines in 2024, 2027 and ending in 2030. Without forgetting the invasion of the blue crab which is seriously damaging aquaculture activities throughout the Peninsula."
(Unioneonline)