The 77 small-scale fishing boats of the Pitiusas (22 from Formentera and 55 from Ibiza) will carry devices (green boxes, although they are blue) for location and monitoring that will allow them to be identified and to know the date and time of their geographical position, their course and their speed. The installation of these devices, which will be completed before November 11, is part of the Management Plan for Professional Artisanal Fishing in the inland waters of the Pitiusas, which is still in draft form, but that the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Mae de la Concha, wants to implement in March, when the next fishing season begins. De la Concha, who traveled yesterday to Ibiza to give details on the green boxes, explained that this plan “has been achieved with enough consensus,” although she admitted that “there is always some skepticism. It fits, she said, the markedly seasonal model of fishing activities of the Pitiusas. 
“They will be able to fish the days they want during the summer, without having to take the rest days stipulated until now (30 hours). This will be compensated in winter with the breaks they consider convenient”
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