As happens every year-end, the port of Vigo becomes the epicenter of preparations for a new fishing season in the usurped Argentine waters . The newspaper La Voz de Galicia recently confirmed that the companies Chymar, Pescapuerta, and Pereira have already begun provisioning their vessels . The goal: to set sail in the coming days to begin the Patagonian squid ( Loligo ) fishing season at the end of the month .

However, what the Spanish media present as an "industrial tradition", from the perspective of Argentine sovereignty and environmental sustainability , is the chronicle of a looting foretold that, for the first time in decades, shows signs of terminal exhaustion.

The support of the colony in figures

Since 1989 and 1990, the sale of illegal fishing licenses has been the backbone of the Malvina Islands' economy . This activity not only sustains the islands' high standard of living but also positions them as one of the territories with the highest per capita income in the world, based exclusively on the extraction of other people's resources. Historically, the average catch hovered around 250,000 tons annually , but 2025 marked a turning point that the Spanish fleet prefers to ignore in its New Year's toasts.

2025: The year the resource said "enough"

The articles published by Agenda Malvinas throughout last year allow us to draw a downward and alarming statistical line that contradicts Galician optimism:

The hypocrisy of the "Repentant Looter"

The analysis cannot ignore Spain's double standard. While scientists like Graham Pierce (IIM) denounce the "lack of control" at mile 201, they deliberately omit the fact that fishing within the British exclusion zone is equally illegal and predatory. The Vigo fishing industry has invested over €240 million in modernizing vessels (such as the Argos Berbés and the Prion ), and faced with a shortage of squid, the pressure to recoup that investment is pushing the colonial authorities to allow fishing "as much as possible," ignoring any criteria of scientific sustainability that INIDEP effectively maintains in Argentine waters.

The scenario for 2026

The fleet preparing today in Beiramar will cross the Atlantic with growing uncertainty . The Patagonian squid, a key component of the food chain, is disappearing due to unsustainable fishing pressure that has prioritized the financial gain of the British-Spanish alliance over the life of the ecosystem .

The start of 2026 is not just a new fishing season; it confirms a colonial extractive model that, after three decades of systematic plunder, may be reaching its biological limits. International silence and Spanish corporate complicity are sealing the fate of this resource in the South Atlantic.