Hot weather awakens the blue crab, first stops to clam fishing. 14 cooperatives of the Polesine Fishermen's Cooperative Consortium have decided, against their will, to suspend activity due to a total lack of product.
"A choice that weighs heavily on us but is inevitable", says Luigino Marchesini, president of the Consortium. The situation is also critical in Emilia Romagna, where the cooperatives that work in areas where the water is lower try to protect the sowing of juvenile fish with fences.