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Conclusions of the two round tables of the X ARVI International Conference on the Future of Fishing
(SPAIN, 6/29/2023)
Vigo - After the closure, yesterday Tuesday, of the tenth edition of the ARVI International Conference on the Future of Fisheries by the Conselleiro do Mar of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Villares, the most relevant conclusions of the round tables of the two Panels that configured it have been the following:
I The Community Biodiversity Strategy: Impact on the future food sovereignty of fishing:
• Galician fishing is the guarantor of the structuring of the territory and the supply of food.
• The fishing sector supports all environmental improvement processes as long as they are produced through dialogue and sharing, not as imposed autocratic acts.
• The Action Plan of the European Commission has been created based on secrecy, it is launched avoiding the impact on the Common Fisheries Policy, avoiding reviewing it, hiding the impact study and with serious misinformation; It is about "a writing of 4th of the ESO", marking the future of the supply and European food sovereignty of fish.
• It is necessary to end the status of European Fisheries as a showcase for the environment.
• The EU Biodiversity Strategy is having a real negative impact on food production companies, violating the content of the Paris Treaty regarding guaranteeing community primary production.
• It is essential that a Commissioner for Primary Production and/or Food Safety guarantee active sovereignty policies for the supply of food from community producers and companies.
• It is terrible that the food sovereignty of our children is in the hands of this Commission; its current policies lead to destroying the community production structure, for example, in fishing.
• There are challenges to food security that fish can mitigate, as a protein and nutrient-dense food derived from environmentally, economically and socially sustainable activity.
• The work of the Group of Experts on the European Mechanism for Preparedness and Response to food crises is confirmed, and must be intensified to guarantee the Union's food security.
• We are at a critical moment to reconsider the strategy and reverse the fact that it is increasingly difficult for European producers to put their product on the tables of the Union.
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II The decarbonization of the fishing sector; What energy transition strategy is possible for community fisheries?
• The sector, which has been actively working on energy efficiency improvements for years, considers, along with other stakeholders, that any future exercise towards an energy transition requires renewing the fishing fleet. Of the four documents of the EC Action Plan, the one on decarbonization was the one with the greatest consensus with the position of the sector.
• An energy transition is needed that is technologically possible and economically viable.
• The creation of the European Association for the Energy Transition is considered positive, but it must apply good sense and a solid structuring of the work.
• Given the announcement of the study and roadmap on energy transition towards the end of the year that will take until 2050, it is essential not to replicate errors of other unilateral approaches imposed on fishing recently, if you want to be successful.
• A realistic timetable must be established to accommodate technological advances with environmental requirements.
• The “Elephant in the room” is that the technological reality of current marine engineering will require future developments of fuels and technologies that are currently not viable for fishing fleets, especially offshore and deep sea fleets.
• The current analysis of alternative energy systems to fossil fuels does not show real operations in the short term. “0 Emissions” require a significant leap that does not exist today; “hybrid” technologies will be the only useful temporary approach.
• The application barriers identified are technological (due to the need for more space on board for new technologies and fuels), given the lack of practical technical knowledge, and financial due to the high investment costs involved in renewing the fleet.
• Any alternative fuel system will require significant increases in the volume of fishing vessels, so it is essential to change the capacity restrictions of the Common Fisheries Policy and apply financing systems that allow the community fleet to be renewed and prevent it from disappearing, and with it what little food sovereignty the Union has left.
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