Commercial Fishing Seafood Industry Contacts - Spain (+34)    A - H

Government Contacts & Information Resources for
Commercial Fishing, Seafood, Aquaculture, Marine & Oceans in Spain

Europêche - Association of national organisations of fishing enterprises in the European Union

European Commission - Fisheries - The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the European Union's instrument for the management of fisheries and aquaculture. It was created to manage a common resource and to meet the obligation set in the original Treaties of the then European Community. Because fish are a natural and mobile resource they are considered as common property. In addition, the Treaties which created the Community stated that there should be a common policy in this area, that is, common rules adopted at EU level and implemented in all Member States.

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) - International commission for the conservation of Atlantic Tuna is an inter-governmental fishery organization responsible for the conservation of tunas and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas.

European Association of Fish Producers’ Organisations (EAPO) - European Association of Fish Producers Organisations.

Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentacion - Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

• Fisheries Division -In this section you can consult not only the major figures relating to marine fishing (in several languages), but also a range of information on: Marine fishing areas, minimum sizes for the different species caught, Latin American marine reserves, information on the Spanish fishing fleet, etc.

General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - Consisting of 22 Member countries along with the European Community, the GFCM’s objectives are to promote the development, conservation, rational management and best utilization of living marine resources, as well as the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and connecting waters. Membership is open to both Mediterranean coastal states and regional economic organizations as well as to United Nations member states whose vessels engage in fishing in Mediterranean waters.

Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile for Spain - aquatic species caught by country or area, by species items, by FAO major fishing areas, and year, for all commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence purposes. The harvest from mariculture, aquaculture and other kinds of fish farming is also included.

Organización Interprofesional del Atún - The National Association of Conserve Manufacturers of Fish and Seafood has as aim of guarding by the interests of his more than 160 companies associated, which transform and commercialize products of the sea, providing to them an ample range of services in different fields like the quality, the investigation, innovation and technological development, the representation before the different administrations, the foreign trade, the labor formation, relations and the legal consultant's office.

ANABAC - The National Association of Ships Tunny boats Freezers and the Organization of Congealed Producers of Túnidos, count on 6 associate companies and 19 ships cerqueros tunny boats freezers that they capture túnidos tropical.  Its social address is in c Txibitxiaga 24, Entreplanta, 48370 Bermeo   (Biscay). Its operative scope is centered in the African Atlantic Ocean (Mauritania until Angola), with 5 units there operating and in the Indian Ocean (fundamentally around the Seychelles Islands, Islands Chagos and Canal de Mozambique), with 14 units. Production level basically, the fleet captures túnidos tropical; this is, Rabil (yellowfin), Listed (skipjack) and Patudo (bigeye), being 100,000 the annual capture superior to tons. 

Blue-fin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Population Dynamics research programme
Research on fisheries biology of blue-fin tuna and swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the Mediterranean Sea. Malta is participating by collecting fishing effort and landings data as well as biological data together with Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Italy. The results of the analyses of the pooled national data are used to issue recommendations (eg. total allowable catches, closed seasons) on the exploitation of these Mediterranean stocks.

An international bottom trawl survey in the Mediterranean - In the Mediterranean, the main demersal fisheries are localized on narrow continental shelves along the coasts. Experiences during the last decades in this area have shown that it was difficult to obtain a global estimate of the demersal resources from fishing activity, especially due to the very large dispersion of the landing places, the important diversity of the species caught and the scarceness of reliable statistics. This situation has induced different European Union States to conduct national programmes for the assessment of these resources from repetitive trawl surveys. A lot of the demersal resources in the Mediterranean are considered as fully or over-exploited.

Some fish species found in Mediterranean

Latin name

Citharus linguatula

Eutrigla gurnardus

Helicolenus dactylopterus

Lepidorhombus boscii

Lophius budegassa

Lophius piscatorius

Merluccius merluccius

Micromesistius potassou

Mullus barbatus

Mullus surmuletus

Pagellus acarne

Pagellus bogaraveo

Pagellus erythrinus

Pagrus pagrus

Phycis blenoides

Raja clavata

Solea vulgaris

Spicara flexuosa

Trachurus mediterraneus

Trachurus trachurus

Trisopterus min. capelanus

Zeus faber

Aristaeomorpha foliacea

Aristeus antennatus

Nephrops norvegicus

Parapenaeus longirostris

Eledone cirrhosa

Eledone moschata

Illex coindetti

Loligo vulgaris

Octopus vulgaris

Sepia oficinalis

 

Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes de Conservas de Pescados y Mariscos - National Fish and Seafood Canners’ Association  ANFACO, en colaboración con la Consellería de Pesca e Asuntos Marítimos, está organizando un ciclo de conferencias bajo el título “Pasado, presente y futuro de la industria conservera gallega de pescados y mariscos”, como medida para impulsar un mayor acercamiento de la industria conservera de pescados y mariscos a la sociedad en general. A través de dichas conferencias se pretende dar a conocer la evolución de esta industria y de sus empresas, su carácter asociativo y su repercusión en el desarrollo económico y social de nuestra Comunidad Autónoma

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FEICOPESCA - The National Federation of Associations of Manufacturers of Conserves, Semiconservas and Salazones de Pescados and Mariscos manages, defends and coordinates the common interests of the different associations from conserve manufacturers of Biscay, Andalusia, Asturias, Cantabria and Galicia.

OPAGAC. - The Organization of Producers of Great Tunny boats Freezers has as purpose the defense of the interests of the shipbuilders associated, exerting the representation before the autonomic administrations, national and communitarian, as well as in the Regional Organizations of Fishing who regulate pesquerías. She has 8 Spanish companies associates, who are proprietors of 18 cerqueros tunny boats Spanish freezers, 19 cerqueros tunny boats freezers under flag of other countries and 9 merchant ships. These companies operate in the tropical seas of the Atlantic, East Indian and Pacific in search of the tropical túnidos ones (rabil and listing mainly) that is the objective of his pesquería.

AZTI - Azti is a non-profitmaking organisation committed to social and economic development in the foodstuffs and fishing industries, and to protection of the marine environment and of natural resources. 20 years of experience since 1981 with over 2,000 projects involving companies, institutions and public administrations, and over 10,000 technology and lab services.

Federation of European Aquaculture Producers - The Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) is an international organisation that is composed of the National Aquaculture Associations of European countries. The basic aims of the Federation are: * to develop and establish a common policy on questions relating to the production and the commercialisation of aquaculture species are reared professionally. * to make known to the appropriate authorities the common policies envisaged above.

Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission: The IATTC, established by international convention in 1950, is responsible for the conservation and management of fisheries for tunas and other species taken by tuna-fishing vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.