Cagliari, fishing boats in port: "Costs too high, it's not worth going out"

The biological shutdown is over for twenty-four hours but the boats of the train have chosen not to start the engines, blocked in port by costs impossible to bear. In the lead the price of diesel, which for example in Cagliari has skyrocketed reaching 1.3 euros per liter.

"Our boat consumes 1500 liters of diesel per day, the accounts are soon done. Also because you have to add salaries, costs of equipment, nets, ropes, steel, these too have grown enormously. but even on par it is now a luxury ", explains the owner Marco Giordano." If there were a future, an owner might think of making more sacrifices, but the truth is that the prospects are dark ".

So much so that he forced Pasquale Cozzolino, owner of a large boat for the train, to stop the company and disembark the entire crew. "Going out is not convenient, if you do you go at a loss".

This is also why 80 per cent of the large fishing boats remained on the quay this morning, as did many fishermen on the east coast. While the spontaneous protest took less root in the Oristano area.

“There are basically two problems that are afflicting the category. The expensive diesel fuel, which has reached crazy prices in Italy, also due to the monopoly, and the provisions on fishing for red and purple shrimp. The European community had indicated the shrimp quota for Italy of 370 tons, while the Italian state had decided to allocate the quotas for each boat ”, says Renato Murgia, head of the Sardinian shipowners' association. Now that it has happened: some fishermen, including many Sardinians and Cagliari, have operated without losing the entire quota but leaving a part of it for the Christmas holidays.

Percentages dispersed. "In fact he lost. Our residual quota - explains the commander of the fishing boat Gisella, Gianpiero Melis - we have to give up".

THE NOTE OF FEDERPESCA - “In the last few days we have received worrying data from all the Italian navies regarding the prices of diesel which continues to increase dramatically. A situation that is causing the decision of many companies to stop their activities again due to too high production costs that do not guarantee any profit margin ”, the National Federation of Fishing Enterprises said . "Unfortunately the worst has not passed - continues the note -: we are facing numbers and projections that are leading to a real trap for a primary sector that is fundamental for our country and the lack of local fish on Italian tables in the coming months. . For this reason, we hope that the new government will soon be appointed and, together with Parliament, will address the problems of the fishing sector and the strategic, energy and food autonomy of Italy among its priorities ”.