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EFTP News:
Vigo, 18th may. European
Fisheries Technology Platform has been
presented during the industrial
fair “Navalia”. This initiative will
coordinate the R&D policies in the
fishery sector in the European
countries.
The President of
Europeche Javier Garat assured this
issue during the presentation of the
Platform. He was accompanied by the
Conselleira del Mar of the Galician
government Rosa Quintana
Garat affirmed that “The
European Commission stimulated the
creation of this Platform in order to
have the coordination among the R&D
initiatives of the different countries
and for the individual initiatives to be
shared”
The President of
Europeche remembered that “the European
fishery sector manifest exploitation’s
high costs and it suffers from the
consequences of low fish prices and the
crisis”.
Among the platform’s
objectives Javier Garat emphasized the
importance of providing a common
European approaching in R&D”, also it is
important to offer a long term view in
fisheries technologies, to reach a
consensus of a route map and an agenda
in future researches, as well as to
mobilize a community of public and
private resources in order to be able to
carry out these activities
He also said that
“research programs are necessary and we
must achieve they will help to the
relationships among the enterprises”.
Furthermore, he said that
enterprises in the sector, scientific
organization in EU, universities, public
administration or trade union will have
the opportunity to participate in the
Platform. He pleads for a flexible
organization that will let to react to
the fishery sector necessities in R&D.
Rosa Quintana commented
that the fishery activities have to keep
up with the times in order to get
advantages of competitors.
The Conselleira also said
that we share the worry and the interest
for the future maritime and fishery’s
activities in Europe.
Quintana also pleads for
“the innovation and the competitive”,
and she stated that Navalia and
E-Fishing are a good example for the
necessity of work together in order to
advance.
As the fishery Autonomic
responsible stated “to join synergies”
will help to save resources in order to
aim at the future.
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