While the Spanish government maintains its claim to sovereignty over the islands at the UN, its fishing companies are financing the British occupation. With the fishing grounds on the verge of collapse, the colonial administration guarantees them a minimum extraction quota to safeguard Vigo's profitability, ignoring the need to protect the resource.

The Beiramar docks in Vigo (Galicia, Spain) have once again shown their bitterest side for Argentine sovereignty. The newspapers Faro de Vigo and Atlántico confirm the departure of the 16 freezer trawlers that make up the vanguard of the 2026 plunder. Names like Falcon, Prion, Golden Chicha and Argos Berbés are already sailing towards the South Atlantic to operate under illegal licenses granted by the British colony in "Puerto Argentino" , as the Galician media choose to call it, systematically ignoring the Argentine toponymy and international law .

Los buques de capital gallego mensou por la prensa española para esta campaña 2026 son: el Falcon , Prion , Golden Chicha , Hermanos Touza , Hadassa Bay , New Polar , Robin M. Lee , Argos Cíes , Argos Pereira , Argos Berbés , Beagle FI , Argos Cíes , Venturer , Sil , Monteferro , Monte Lourido e Igueldo .

The "Ploit Floor": When profit rules over science

The information coming from Spain is revealing: after the terrible numbers of 2025 —where squid catches fell to catastrophic figures—, the colonial government has established a "safety threshold" of 10,000 tons of squid.

However, official data from the British Department of Fisheries, cited by the Spanish press, admits that the risk of falling below that limit is real. But the political decision has been made: to "save" the multi-million euro investment of the Vigo-based fishing companies (more than €240 million in new vessels), the colony has frozen license prices until 2027 and guarantees fishing at any cost. This is evidence of a system that does not protect the ecosystem, but rather ensures the profitability of its Spanish partners to financially sustain the usurpation .

The hypocrisy of the "Mother Country"

The double standard of the Spanish State is unacceptably odious . In international forums and at the United Nations, Spain and Argentina maintain a historic agreement of mutual support: Argentina backs Spain's claim to Gibraltar, and Spain does the same regarding the Malvina Islands.

However, in practice, Spain is the main trading partner of the British occupation. Joint ventures between Galician capital and island companies are the engine that allows the usurpers to maintain one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Spain signs the decolonization agreement with its left hand in New York, while with its right hand it finances the upkeep of the colony in the South Atlantic.

Betrayal of the blood

This plundering is not only a despoiling of natural resources (about 250,000 tons annually on historical average); it is also an affront to memory and identity.

Argentina is home to the largest Galician community outside of Spain. In 1982, thousands of children, grandchildren, and descendants of those Galicians who came to the country seeking a better future marched to the front lines to defend the Malvina Islands. Today, the same ports from which their grandparents sailed see the departure of ships that will steal their grandchildren's future in Argentina. It is a fundamental betrayal: companies in Vigo prioritize economic gain from the British usurper over respecting the sovereignty of the nation that sheltered their own people.

A fishing ground in freefall

Even with the bias of the Spanish media, the reality is undeniable:

The "uncertainty" that Vigo's shipowners speak of is nothing more than the result of decades of overfishing without real scientific oversight, an extractive frenzy that is now showing signs of exhaustion. 2026 begins not as a fishing season, but as a financial rescue operation for a Spanish fleet that, in collusion with London, seems determined to extract every last squid before the fishing grounds collapse completely .