Sea urchin fishing resumes in January, but uncertainty remains in Sardinia.
A mandatory app for reporting waste collection has been launched. Operators: "A shutdown of several years is inevitable."
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The boats will return to the water on January 1st amidst a thousand uncertainties and a few bitter certainties. Sea urchin fishing in Sardinia has never been so precarious due to product shortages, and the measures implemented so far to stem the shortage appear to have had no effect. This is especially true of the month-long delay decided this year by the Region, which pushed the start of the season back a month, from the usual December to early 2026. This has also led to the introduction of a mandatory app requiring licensed fishermen to report the quantities harvested each day in real time.
Solutions
For the Region, the industry, and the hundreds of fishermen who work there, a crucial crossroads looms once again: either ignore the situation and continue harvesting increasingly smaller and rarer specimens from the seabed, or face the evidence and resign themselves to halting fishing until the sea urchin population returns to its former levels of quantity and quality.
