A Moroccan fisherman residing in Spain fell into the sea, near the coast of Fnideq. Carried away by the current, he has been missing since Saturday. Maritime rescue services are actively searching for him.
Fishery resources off the Moroccan coast are threatened with depletion due to their overexploitation for industrial purposes. Voices have been raised calling on the government to review its policy in the sector.
Morocco will build in the coming months a dozen fish farms off the Canary Islands, which will be added to the three others already installed in the Chafarinas Islands, near Melilla. Spain considers this attitude of the kingdom as a provocation.
The Popular Party (PP) of Melilla has called on the Spanish government to respond firmly to Morocco, which plans to build new fish farms on the maritime route connecting Almería to Melilla, after the one installed in Spanish territorial waters, near the Zaffarines islands.
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs last week sent a letter to the Moroccan embassy in Spain to protest against the installation of a fish farm near the Zaffarines islands .
The Spanish Navy, in charge of monitoring the country’s maritime spaces, has been "for months" alerting against the measures taken by Morocco for the installation of a fish farm near the Chafarinas Islands.
The Vox senator in Ceuta, Yolanda Merelo, has questioned the Spanish government about the installation of a fish farm by Morocco in the waters near the Chafarinas Islands. For the elected representative of the far-right formation, it is a "new attack" against Spanish sovereignty.
Spanish MEP Juan Ignacio Zoido believes that "Spain is jeopardizing the future of hundreds of families" by defending the suppression of the agricultural and fisheries agreements between Morocco and the EU .
Moroccan sardines are threatened with extinction. Professionals point the finger at the freezing and fish meal production sectors. They demand the introduction of a quota system.
A group of fishermen caught a nearly prehistoric-sized ocean sunfish off the coast of Ceuta , Morocco, on October 3rd. A rather incredible discovery.
Spain plans to appeal the rulings of the European Union’s General Court (GCEU) that have canceled the fisheries agreements between the EU and Morocco. This is at least the assurance given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares.
Calls to boycott French products have been launched in Morocco following France’s decision to reduce by 50% the granting of visas for Moroccans and the decision of the European Court of Justice to cancel two free trade agreements on agricultural products and fisheries between the kingdom and the EU.