Minister announces €1.2 million compensation for Algarve fishermen
This compensation for fishermen is a “first” in Portugal, minister says Portugal’s minister for the environment has announced €1.2 million in compensation for Algarve fishermen affected by the creation of
Ice shortage affecting Algarve fishermen
Algarve fishermen say the “lack of ice is recurrent” Fishermen in the Algarve are being affected by an ice shortage due to a “lack of maintenance of ice-making machines” at some
Marinha Grande shipwreck: search continues for missing fishermen
Police divers have resumed searches today for the three fishermen who remain missing following yesterday’s shipwreck off the coast of Marinha Grande. Reports stress that the priority is to find
Bluefin tuna fishing season off to good start in Algarve
100% of fished tuna is exported The bluefin tuna fishing season began this week in the Algarve with the catching of 100 fish, the largest weighing 330 kilos, at a
Overdue dredging worries Algarve fishermen
In some cases, boats are forced to wait for high tides to enter ports Fishermen in the Algarve are concerned about the lack of safety conditions at the entrances of
Portuguese fishermen see quotas increased for mackerel, monkfish, plaice and black scabbard
It’s good news, and bad news all rolled into one. The good being obvious: Portuguese fishermen can fish more. But the bad being that increased quotas will increase their (the
Fishermen threaten to ‘stop fishing’, take legal action over massive block of offshore wind farms
Insist they are “not against renewable energies” but there must be proportion Fishing boat owners in the north are threatening to stop fishing, and file injunctions with Europe, over the
Algarve fishermen hold protest against marine park
Park presented as solution to “preserving biodiversity; making fishing more profitable” Fishermen from Quarteira, in the Algarve, will be staging a protest flotilla on Saturday against the project to create
Fishermen ‘betrayed’ over wind farms request urgent parliamentary meeting
320,000 hectares of coastline risks being transformed into “largest oceanic desert in world” The movement of fishing associations that has emerged from the government’s latest wind farm policy has described
Fishermen up in arms over new plans for offshore wind farms
Farms “signal death certificate for fishing sector”, warns cooperative Around 15 fishermen’s associations from around the country are meeting in Viana do Castelo tomorrow to take a joint position on