The Falklands/Malvinas dispute between Argentina and the UK is having its effects on the (Spanish) Galician fleet in the Southwest Atlantic, where most of its vessels operating under the Falklands flag are continually being “harassed” by Argentine patrol vessels, reports El Faro de Vigo in an interview with Javier Touza, president of the Vigo Ship Owners cooperative.
The “harassment” strategy comes “not under the form of vessel retentions but in warnings, intimidations, identifications, communications or permanent reminding of the decree from Argentina which bans the transit through its territorial waters of ships with supplies for the oil rigs operating in the Islands, when we are nothing but fishermen, and that’s all”, complains Touza.
