Maintaining in 2019 the quota stipulated for sardine fishing that was in force in 2018 and increasing support and funding for fishermen through the MAR 2020 community program are the main demands of fishermen and sardine fishing companies to which the Municipality of Lagos expressed the its institutional support, through the Motion approved on Thursday, unanimously, in a meeting of the municipal executive.
Lagos thus joins the recent political position taken, first taken by the Municipalities of Peniche and Nazaré, which had already had an identical motion passed in their bodies.
This decision was based on, among others, «the knowledge of objective and credible studies that show very relevant increases in terms of sardine biomass on our coast, as well as the defense of dietary and cultural habits rooted in the gastronomy of the Portuguese and the concern with safeguarding the socio-economic balance within the fishing community, so important in the local, regional and national economy».
In addition, the «tradition that Lagos has in relation to traditional fishing and the canning industry, evident in the still existing Arte da Xávega (which the Municipality has also declared its support), to which is added a resurgence of the industry with the implementation in the municipality of the largest frozen fish and shellfish factory in the Iberian Peninsula'.
This position will be communicated to the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Sea, the ANMP - National Association of Portuguese Municipalities, the AMAL – Algarve Intermunicipal Community and the Lagos Municipal Assembly, as well as the municipalities with a fishing port.
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