Under the euphemism of a "return to normality", the Vigo fishing industry has begun to celebrate the results of the first 2026 squid fishing season in the Malvina Islands with an illegal British license.

According to preliminary data from Galician media, catches of this species in the usurped Argentine waters are already higher than the 38,000 tons recorded in the same period of 2025. This increase is not a product of chance, but of the relentless extractive pressure of 16 factory ships that operate knowingly violating Argentine legislation.

The "Normality" of Plunder

The Spanish fishing sector, a strategic partner of the United Kingdom, notes with relief that the resource is located in the "usual areas and in abundance." What for them is a commercial success, for the Republic of Argentina is confirmation of systematic theft.

By mid-April 2026, the fleet had already surpassed last season's catch peak. This is reason enough for shipowners to emphasize that squid migrations from the Exclusive Economic Zone waters adjacent to the mainland sector, towards the Malvina Islands sector, are occurring "normally." This allows them to achieve a more efficient and lethal catch.

 After the collapse that nearly halted activity in 2025, the biological respite appears to have given the colonial enclave a new margin to continue funding its occupation, while they prepare to extract oil from the Sea Lion field.

The cynicism of "Scientific Management"

It is outrageous that sources in the fishing sector in Vigo describe the adjustment of fishing effort by the usurpers of previous years as "a success," given that it was not an ethical or conservationist decision; but the desperate reaction of someone who has nothing left to steal.

Today, with the fishing grounds slightly recovered, the mixed-ownership fleet is back in action with the same voracity, supported by a colonial "scientific committee" that only seeks to guarantee colonial revenue.

The enclave's oxygen

This increase in captures has a direct political interpretation that Argentinians should know in detail:

1.   Financial Strengthening: More squid means more licensing revenue for the colonial administration. Every ton that arrives in Vigo is money that sustains British infrastructure in the South Atlantic.

2.   Consolidation of the Vigo-London Axis: The success of this campaign reinforces the alliance between Galician capital and the British government, eliminating any possibility that these companies will respect the Argentine Fisheries Law.

3.   A Challenge to Sovereignty: The "normality" they proclaim is our greatest affront. While the world watches the success of the 16 trawlers flying the Malvinas flag, Argentina must toughen sanctions against these companies that today boast of their full holds.

The 2026 summer season marks the end of "uncertainty" for the plunderers, but the beginning of a new cycle of vigilance for the defense of our resources. This abundance is not a gift of nature, but the heritage of 47 million Argentinians, being stolen by an usurping power with the necessary complicity of the Spanish fleet.

Fountain:

The Atlantic