Factores de vulnerabilidad del sector pesquero de la provincia de Alicante en el panorama actual

Abstract

The fishery in Alicante Province are in a critical situation. It have an important tradition in our society and now this economic sector is in risk. This situation hasn't always been like at the moment. Before Spain became in member state of the European Union, Alicantina fleet was considered the most important in the Mediterranean Sea. From this point on, along with lack of profitability of the sector during the last decades, both had been decisive so that the number of ships in Fisherman's Association had been gone down each year. The aid of the Common Fishery Policy to the stop of the activity, aged sector and without young and qualified workforce are the other ingredients that lead to a crisis that fishery will be difficult to reverse.