I fuel prices they explode the protest of the fishermen chand, in recent days, they have demonstrated in Rome to draw the attention of the Government which will have to intervene quickly to defuse yet another “bomba” clockwork ready to complicate the path of the executive led by Draghi, always in fibrillation.
The protest of the fishermen explodes
We have put forward three hypotheses to pursue: the fixed price on diesel with a maximum ceiling of 70 cents that allows us to be able to go back to sea immediately; pass the tax credit from 20 al 50% and finally the immediate blocking of mortgages. And if it takes time to implement our requests, we asked for the optional emergency stop that we initially proposed “.
This is what was reported by the members of the fishermen’s delegation of the maritime sector of Manfredonia (Foggia) who in the afternoon of June 1st they met Alessandra Sartone State Secretary for Economy and Finance to protest against the expensive diesel. “We are waiting to meet the Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry Policies Francesco Battistoni to get concrete answers – they said – 20 days were taken here because the 3 June there will be a negotiating table between the regions and the state. That one billion e 200 million euros allocated by the European community to deal with the emergency of companies in the maritime sector should be used to intervene on price of diesel oil “.
Fresh fish emergency
Meanwhile, Fedagripesca-Confcooperative, speaks of a worsening of the trade balance, which will see imports into Italy also weigh more heavily. 30% in the hardest days of the stop to fishing. In fact, fresh fish is scarce, what is there is mostly the result of small-scale fishing, but the large quantities caught from the trawl are lacking. And among the restaurateurs, the association says, there are those who adapt by changing the menu dictated by what they can find, those who have stocked up in time and aim, as long as they can, on the slaughtered fish. In 2020, the association underlines, Italy imported more 5 million euros of fish products, pMostly from Spain but also from the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark, a figure set to increase. Among the species that matter most from an economic point of view there are salmon, yellow fin tuna intended for the canning industry, but also to make tartare or sushi, squid and shrimp.
“The protest of all the maritime industries of the country for the expensive diesel which, after the effects of the pandemic crisis is putting the Italian fishing sector in crisis, represents a cry of alarm to which the institutions are called to give an urgent response “: admits the President of the Conference of the RegionsMassimiliano Fedriga.
Sea bream from Tanzania and cuttlefish from the Seychelles
Meanwhile, in the wake of the protest of the fishing boats, the foreign fish is depopulated in fishmongers and supermarkets in half of Italy: from sea bream from Tanzania passing through the pangasi from Vietnam to the cuttlefish from the Seychelles.
“When they started taking out the boxes from the Tir, these origins were marked on the red cards – the fisherman Fedele Cianfrini explained to Repubblica -. It is not only frozen, try to imagine how long that product has been traveling and how many “powders” they must have put us in “
