Sicilian fishermen are planning to lobby Italian authorities and the country's European parliamentarians to iron out discrepancies between the fishing areas allotted to Malta and Sicily.
Nello Maialino, a representative of the Portopalo fishermen, said it was ironic that Malta had a 25-mile fishing zone when Sicily, with nearly three times the number of registered fishing vessels, had a mere 12-mile zone.
Mr Maialino said the fishing zone should be distributed according to the fishing fleet and according to the size of the islands.
"Just 12 miles is far too little for all Portopalo's fishing community that depends on the trade for their livelihood. There are 600 families out of a total of 3,000 inhabitants who depend on fishing. We want the fishing zone to be split equally or according to the fleet or the size of land," he said.
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Fisheries Management Zone
Malta has a special 25-mile zone, which falls under the parameters of a fisheries management zone. After EU membership it replaced the 25-mile exclusive fishing zone acquired in 1971 in accordance with the UN's Convention of the Law of the Sea.
The aim of this zone is to protect the fisheries' resources of the sea area and the ecosystems on which they depend. With few exceptions only vessels smaller than 12 metres are allowed to fish within the zone.
The EU arrangement does not discriminate between Maltese and EU fishermen, so Maltese fishermen who own boats larger than 12 metres lost their right to fish in the 25-mile zone upon membership in 2004.
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