"Pending the approval of the ministerial decrees implementing the new regulations on the National Solidarity Fund for natural disasters necessary to apply the regulations and grant emergency aid to our fishermen, the Veneto Region has approved the Proposed Declaration of Natural Disaster caused by the blue crab for the year 2023, delimiting the damaged areas based on the reports signed by Arpav, Ispra and the University of Venice. In this way, as soon as the ministerial decree declaring the state of natural disaster is published in the Official Gazette, damaged businesses will immediately be able to apply for compensation to access resources from the National Solidarity Fund". These are the words of the Regional Councillor for Fishing, Cristiano Corazzari, who announces the approval by the Regional Council, on its own proposal, by resolution, of the "Proposal for the Declaration of Natural Disaster due to the exceptional spreading event of the invasive alien species called Blue Crab for the year 2023" and the supporting Technical Report that contains, among other things, the delimitation of the damaged regional areas. All Venetian lagoons are among the damaged areas. The starting point is Budget Law 2023, which extended the Natural Calamity Fund provided by Legislative Decree No.104/2004 for damage from exceptional events to agriculture also to the world of fishing and aquaculture to deal with damage from exceptional events, including the spread of invasive alien species.
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