"This year we fought to explain to the European Union that the world of fishing is important, that Italy has lost 40% of its fleets compared to the 28% of the European average, that we want to guarantee environmental sustainability, that However, it must be related to economic and income sustainability."
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Francesco Lollobrigida, said this at the Pordenone fair, speaking via video at the inauguration of AquaFarm, an international conference and exhibition on aquaculture, shellfish farming, algoculture and the fishing industry.
"How can we achieve this? - he continued - By not attacking some fishing systems which are specific only to some nations, in particular Italy, such as trawling which if it were canceled from one day to the next, as some he intended to do, it would take away more than a third of our navies, leaving unemployment and the inability to guarantee income to families that we would have to support perhaps with welfare models that are useless and, above all, that do not deserve those people who instead want to live on their own work and also educate their children to this type of model".
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