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Producers warn of excessive fishing of bigeye tuna in the Azores
The bluefin tuna quota may be about to run out in the Azores, due to excessive capture of the species in the region, Jorge Gonçalves, from the Cooperativa de Pesca Açoriana (CPA), which sells small pelagic and demersal fish, warned today.
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"I think it makes no sense for us to be catching the amount of fish that we are catching, which will mean that we will no longer be able to fish in a week, two weeks at most, [...] with the fish being in great abundance in the Azores sea, to have sold it for one euro and some cents [per kilo]", the shipowner lamented, in statements to journalists, in Horta, on the island of Faial.
Jorge Gonçalves, who is also the president of the Azores Fisheries Federation, also stressed that, at this rate of catches and landings in the fish market, the fishermen and shipowners of tuna fishing could end up jeopardizing the sustainability and profitability of the sector.
"I'm not saying to squander it, but work is being done, a resource is being extracted and we are not taking the dividend that can be taken from this resource, and that is what should make us think a lot, about what we are doing and what we intend to do in the future", warned the CPA representative.
Last week, the Regional Government of the Azores, through the Secretariat for the Sea and Fisheries, published an ordinance to again restrict the amount of bigeye tuna that each boat can catch in Azorean waters, claiming that the quota is about to be exhausted.
"Having reached 75% of the use of the quota for this species, attributed to the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira, it is important to review the limits set, as provided for in paragraph 7 of article 3 of Ordinance no. 20/2024, of 26 April", is stated in the ordinance, published on the 3rd, which determines new limits on the capture, keeping on board, transhipment and landing of bigeye tuna specimens in the archipelago.
However, Jorge Gonçalves warned that the maximum catch limits now imposed by the region may not be being respected by some shipowners and shipmasters, leaving an appeal to the regional authorities.
"We hereby appeal to Lotaçor and the Regional Inspection [of Fisheries] to verify, in fact, this data, through the electronic fishing logs, and if there is a need to act, to act, to enforce the law, for the benefit of everyone and not just some", insisted the shipowner.
According to him, at this moment the fishing boats that are dedicated to catching bigeye tuna in the Azores seas are "flooding" the market with a species that is being undervalued and sold at a low price, due to its abundance in the seas of the region.
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