The Christmas holidays mark one of the key moments of the season for the fish and seafood sector. seafood, which this year already anticipated a difficult campaign with less product and high prices. The latest storms that are affecting the coasts of the northern peninsula further complicate commercial prospects, particularly in Galicia, where the storms have dragged hundreds of mollusks to the beaches.
In an attempt to save part of the affected product, the shellfish harvesters of the Vilanova brotherhood They were working this Tuesday to gather the specimens of clams and cockles that they found scattered in large quantities on the land of the beaches of the estuaries, organized in several work groups by area.
The objective was to locate and rescue those bivalves that were still alive to return them to the sea waters. According to what some workers have declared to The voice of Galiciamuch of the seafood hauled in at this time is still very little and it does not have the necessary size for commercial sale, so it would be a lost product. It is especially worrying in the case of cockleof which they have collected numerous specimens of offspring.
This setback derived from the weather situation only complicates a campaign for which the sector is not at all optimistic. Although it is still early to be able to know more precisely the damage that the storms have left in the shellfish banks, among professionals they speak of “bad omens” for Christmas, even pointing out that it will be even worse next year.
While they wait for the last blows of the storms to pass and the waters to calm down so they can assess the effects on the shellfish, the shellfish harvesters hope that the bivalves they have managed to rescue, several dozen kilos, will be able to complete their development and reach. an acceptable size before the holidays.
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