Spain: Fresh fish landings fail to rebound

According to a report by the entity under the Ministry of Development, between January and November 2013, Spanish ports admitted 207,886 tonnes of fresh fish. This volume represents a decrease of 3.6 per cent compared to the same period in 2012, when 215,794 tonnes were downloaded.

Vigo concentrated the largest landings of last November: it received 6,901 tonnes, 10.3 per cent less than during the same month in 2012 (7,685 tonnes).

Meanwhile, in the first 11 months of last year 69,709 tonnes were landed in this important Galician port, 3.6 per cent less than in the same period in 2012 (72,366 tonnes).

A Coruña was in second place, with 42,174 tonnes entered between January and November 2013, up 2.9 per cent on the same period in 2012 (40,974 tonnes), and then Bay of Cadiz Port, with 20,414 tonnes.

The port of Cartagena was the one that registered the largest increase in landings, 21.3 per cent; it had received only 507 tonnes in the first 11 months of 2012, and 615 tonnes in the same period in 2013.

Following were the ports of Tarragona, with 3,597 tonnes, 21.1 per cent more than in the period January-November 2012 (2,969 tonnes), and Gijon, with 8,970 tonnes, 12.9 per cent more than in the same period of 2012 (7.944 tonnes).

According to the latest report from Barcelona, the largest decrease occurred in the port of Las Palmas, which received only 300 tonnes of fresh fish in the first 11 months of last year, 84.3 per cent less than the same period of 2012, when landings totalled 1,915 tonnes.

Another port where there was a significant decrease in fresh fish landings was the Bay of Algeciras: 537 tonnes were landed compared to 1,248 tonnes between January and November 2012, that is to say, 56.9 per cent less.

In the port of Las Palmas, the fresh fish landing fall was 37.8 per cent: this terminal received 400 tonnes, while in the same period of the previous year 644 tonnes were downloaded.