Black July in the fish markets: In ten years, Arousa has lost 66% of its bivalve harvest.

WE ARE THE SEA The Ría de Arousa has traditionally been the vanguard of the shellfish sector in Galicia, the reliable engine upon which an entire gastronomic universe has been built. But it seems that this reality is changing: Galician shellfish is retreating from the sea, from auctions, and from markets that forget quickly. Sales data in the southern fish markets of the area have been disheartening for months. But now that the high season of summer begins, a period that used to be extraordinarily happy in sales and prices, the downturn generated by the winter rains is being felt more intensely. With a large part of the sector at a standstill or running at low speed, the quantities of shellfish coming to market are at historic lows. Let's observe what has happened in the first three weeks of July according to the account provided by the data from Pesca de Galicia, the platform of the Consellería do Mar. According to these data, at the same time that the towns and beaches are ...