Following various high-level meetings between the two administrations

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environmental Affairs closes deal on exchange of fishing rights with France

News - 2017.4.5

Through the General Secretariat of Fisheries, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environmental Affairs has been able - for another year - to reach an agreement on the exchange of fishing rights with France following various high-level meetings and talks between the two administrations. This deal will benefit the Spanish fisheries sector with an increase of 1,000 tonnes of hake and another 1,200 tonnes of anglerfish for 2017.

This agreement forms part of the various exchanges that Spain organises on an annual basis with other Member States, with this being the most significant in terms of the size of the quotas exchanged.

The agreement will allow the Spanish fleet to increase its activity in non-Spanish EU waters by obtaining larger quotas of the two main species caught by Spanish vessels - hake and anglerfish.

Furthermore, 'mini-quotas' of such species as haddock and pollock have been included, for which Spain had no quotas and which the Spanish fleet was forced to discard until now.