Can you imagine a tasting of canned sardines in the same way that a wine tasting is done? In fact, between canned sardines and wine that ages well, there are several common elements that most people do not know. Let's review some curiosities that experts in the field have explained at the eighth edition of the congress Meeting of the Seas, held in Tenerife.

I interviewed Jaume Carnicer Mas, head of the Vilanova i la Geltrú Fishermen's Guild (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1974) and a white shrimp and monkfish fisherman, on a Friday morning, a public holiday. Since Mercabarna's market is closed, all the boats are beached. No fishermen. In fact, they haven't worked since the previous day. This is the usual routine. Whenever Mercabarna closes, the port of Vilanova also closes, both on the same day and the day before. "It's normal for it to be this way; we're very close to the largest market of markets, and our main buyers are there," he tells me. We then begin to talk about fishing bans and, above all, fishing quotas. The red prawn, the great star of Vilanova and the MediterraneanDays after the interview, the fishermen learned that the same people remained. fishing days for 2026 compared to 2025, which is 143, and without new ecological measuresIn Catalonia, the amount of red shrimp sold this year (even though the year isn't over yet) is 295,749 kilos, while last year, in 2024, it was 387,560 kilos.