Presentation by Xoan López, Secretary of FGCP in a meeting between GAP2 and CFRN members in Canada

1. S-fisheries and shellfish
gathering in Galicia
Management organization of the
fishing resources
Xoán López
Secretario General.

2. The resources
Based on the origin of the stocks we can define:
• Resources based on TAC system and quotas.
• Resources exploited by S-fisheries in coastal
waters and
• Aquaculture.

3. Stocks based on TAC
• Fishing possibilities limited by:
– Relative stability imposed by the entrance of Spain
and Portugal in the UE.
– Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) to achieve 2015
horizon.
– Unique Atlantic stocks consideration for small pelagic
fish which prevents a detailed management in the
European South based on Multi-year Plans to modify
rules based in the state of the resources: biomass,
spawn, juveniles, … and the fleet

4. Directly managed resources
• Allows small scale management.
• Coastal fleet can guarantee sustainability.
• It is possible a trustable control.
• The exploitation of the resource is linked to
it’s planning.

5. Aquaculture
• There is form of aquaculture in Galicia that is
performed in a rational and sustainable
extensive way in community areas and mainly
developed by women that pertains to the
Cofradías (fishing brotherhoods).
• Versus the intensive aquaculture or industrial
aquaculture.

6. Galician fleet
Most of the Galician fleet performs artisanal
fishing and shellfish gathering
nº barcos tripulantes
Gran Altura 120 1.322
Altura 90 1.249
Semiindrustrial 84 840
Bajura 4.033 9.121
Acuicultura 1.263

7. Production
• Total production is important to the regional
economy.
Puntos de venta
LONJAS
KG, EUROS
61 169.827.771 415.262.071

8. Planning and management of fishing
and shellfish gathering
• The planning of the fisheries managed by TAC and quotes:
– Some examples on Management Plans:
• Anchovy fishing: elaborate by the extractive sector of some Spanish regions dedicated to
artisanal fishing and some French regions dedicated to semi-industrial fishing.
• Pelagic fishing: Management Plans for all Europe.
• Management Plans for the coastal fisheries.
– Annual Management Plans that regulates: fleet, technical measures, control measures,
schedule and timing.
• Exploitation Plans for shellfish gathering (clams and other bivalves) and
specific resources (other invertebrates with commercial interest).
– There are 240 exploitation micro-plans that exhaustively plan the number of
participants, working areas, fishing days schedule, timing, maximum catch per day,
health samplings, and market issues. Although they are not legally Marine Protected
Areas, actually they are TURF’s with particular rules.

9. E.g.: Goose barnacle exploitation plan.

10. It is clear to me that the fishing and
the shellfish gathering sector have got
a communication problem, and Galicia
is not an exception
This mail sent to me by a French journalist is an
example of the general lack of knowledge on
the management made by the fishers.

12. What is the Galician Federation of Cofradías?
• We are a Federation integrated by 3 provincial Federations
and 63 Fishers Cofradías of Galicia.
• We’ve got 9,000 associated in the Cofradías.
• Functions and activities as a co-management stakeholder:
– We are a consulting and collaborative member with Administrations:
• Autonomic , we are part of:
– Galician Fishing Council .
– Economic and Social Council.
– Galician Port Council.
– Galician Environment Council.
– Galician Statistical Council.
• National:
– Cantabric and North West Working Group.
– General Council of the Social Security of the Sea.
• European:
– Consulting Regional Council of the SW Atlantic. Chair of the Traditional Fishery Working Group.
– Consulting Council of the Fisheries and Aquaculture (AFCA).

13. Other duties of the FGCP
• Participation on projects and transference of
technology aimed to our strategic future
projection, some e.g:
– GAP2: improving our continuous collaboration with
the Marine Resources and Fisheries team of the
University of A Coruña.
– GEPETO: definition of management units, fisherieas
and resources mapping to implement Multi-Year Plans
in the future.
– VALORPESCART: we deep in the market issues for the
Galician fleet.