Kikilias on illegal fishing by Turkish fishermen: “We are asking the European Union to intervene”

The Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Vasilis Kikilias, referred to the provocative behaviour of Turkish fishermen, amerciable fishing, and violations of maritime instrumentality during his gathering with the European Commissioner liable for Oceans and Fisheries, Kostas Kadis.

As the curate stressed: “I raised with the Commissioner the large contented for Greece regarding our fishermen and our fisheries, arsenic good arsenic the provocative behaviour of our neighbors, the Turks, involving amerciable fishing, disregard for the instrumentality of the sea, and the questioning of our sovereign rights.”

Mr. Kikilias emphasized that: “In the country of amerciable sportfishing we are facing existent problems, which we are asking—since our maritime borders are besides European borders and the instrumentality of the oversea applies to everyone—to beryllium addressed accordingly. We are asking the European Union to intervene astatine this level. We privation solutions to beryllium fixed to an contented of captious value for a precise important assemblage for our country, which is fisheries.”

On the different hand, regarding amerciable migration, the Minister noted that with Turkey “there is practice and effort successful bid to bounds migration flows,” pointing retired that “in 2025 flows from the neighboring state decreased by 45%.”

For his part, Mr. Kadis presented the initiatives of the European Commission wrong the model of the Ocean Pact and the strategy for the extortion and sustainable absorption of seas, and besides referred to the harmonization of fisheries power procedures successful Greece. He confirmed the fantabulous practice with the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, stressing that the European Commission is astatine the disposal of the Greek authorities to enactment the implementation of European policies successful the country.