Members expressed their unhappiness against DAVP. They told that working of davp are to be examined by high level committee. They are working against small and medium newspapers of the country. Result of last pac meeting are under questioned. They rejected application of small & medium newspapers without giving opportunity. Officers of davp assured us to provide opportunity of fresh cases of newspapers. But they did not follow their words. Decreasing of advertisements are also raised. Today small & medium newspapers are getting only 3 ads instead of 7. Davp is giving their advertisements to those newspapers who are selling news columns. In such way, davp is crashing 4th state of the constitution. Today newspapers are became an industry for not publishing information. They are trading to not publish information and getting benefit of it. Government of India is not serious about the freedom of press. They are crying to show their tears to the public. Only small and medium newspapers can fight and give a proper platform to public. Members told to start agitation and hunger strike to solve their problems.
Members expressed their unhappiness about state government of Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand for neglecting small newspapers. Members of Punjab and Uttarakhand asked to constitute their accreditation committee. Members of Uttarakhand told about the cases filed before Press Council and High Court of Nainital. They told that the information department is violating established norms. Members of Punjab and Andhra Pradesh told that the accreditation cads are not giving to district level.
Members raised discrimination and violation of postal guide norms for posting of newspapers. They are asking for service charges from newspapers at the time of posting in deferent rate. Postal officers are violating norms for registration and renewal of postal licence.
Addressing the national council of the association, Mr. KD Chandola, President told the members that he will place all these feelings before the government in a very strong way. He will try to contact his friends member of parliament to raise all these policy matters before parliament so that the government must express their justification and give proper direction to the officers. He told that he is giving all information and correspondence through ASNEWS. He told that another web site is being started and both web site will show our activities.
Meeting of the national council was conducted by Mr. Arif Jamal, The secretary and presided by Me. KD Chandola, President. All senior office bearer ware participated and given their valuable suggestions. In the last, Mr. P. Vishnumurthy, Organising Secretary, proposed condolence motion on the sudden death of Mrs. Sarla Chaturvedi, wife of Mr. Ashok Chaturvedi (General Secretary) and make silence of tow minutes for the peace of the soul.
K.D.Chandola,
President Association of Small and Medium Newspapers of India.
Association Of Small Newspapers was constituted in the year 1984 and registered on 1986. Later on the demand of the members, we included " Of India" in the name of association. Association was being recognized as a strong voice for raising the problems of small newspapers of the country. Press Council Of India recognized it as representative body in the 1997 and then in the year 2004, the association got representation in PCI. So the association in its last 25 years has continuously raised 
A belief that Jesus survived the crucifixion and spent his remaining years in Kashmir has led to a run-down shrine in Srinagar making it firmly onto the must-visit-in India tourist trail. Jesus is reputed to be buried in this run-down shrine in the Kashmir capital
In the backstreets of downtown Srinagar is an old building known as the Rozabal shrine.
It's in a part of the city where the Indian security forces are on regular patrol, or peering out from behind check-posts made of sandbags.
There are still occasional clashes with militants or stone-throwing children, but the security situation has improved in recent times and the tourists are returning.
When I first searched for Rozabal two years ago, the taxi circled around a minor Muslim tomb in a city of many mosques and mausoleums, the driver asking directions several times before we found it.
The shrine, on a street corner, is a modest stone building with a traditional Kashmiri multi-tiered sloping roof.
A watchman led me in and encouraged me to inspect the smaller wooden chamber within, with its trellis-like, perforated screen.
Through the gaps I could see a gravestone covered with a green cloth.
When I returned to the shrine recently though, it was shut - its gate padlocked because it had attracted too many visitors.
The reason? Well, according to an eclectic combination of New Age Christians, unorthodox Muslims and fans of the Da Vinci Code, the grave contains the mortal remains of a candidate for the most important visitor of all time to India.
Officially, the tomb is the burial site of Youza Asaph, a medieval Muslim preacher - but a growing number of people believe that it is in fact the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth.
They believe that Jesus survived the crucifixion almost 2,000 Easters ago, and went to live out his days in Kashmir. "What else could they do? They had to close it," Riaz told me.
His family home almost overlooks the shrine, and he is witheringly dismissive of the notion that Jesus was buried there.
"It's a story spread by local shopkeepers, just because some crazy professor said it was Jesus's tomb. They thought it would be good for business. Tourists would come, after all these years of violence.
"And then it got into the Lonely Planet, and too many people started coming.
"And one foreigner…" he gave me an apologetic look, "broke off a bit from the tomb to take home with him. So that's why it's closed now."
On cue, a couple of unwashed and exhausted Australians appeared, carrying the latest edition of the Lonely Planet travel guide to India, which, sure enough, carried the tale of Jesus's tomb, with some caveats about crackpots and blasphemy.
They asked me to take a photo of them outside the shrine - but were not desperately disappointed that it was closed.
The tomb of Jesus was just another place to tick off on their tourist-in-India must-visit list.
The remains of a Buddhist monastery which some believe Jesus visited
The ruins of a Buddhist monastery in a spectacular location halfway up a mountainside north of Srinagar are not, yet, mentioned in the Lonely Planet. It's a spot that I had previously been unable to visit, because as a senior police officer told me, it was "infested with terrorists".
But the watchman now seemed prepared for the arrival of mass tourism, with his 50 words of English, and his hidden stock of ancient terracotta tiles for sale.
He informed me that Jesus was among the religious leaders who attended a famous Buddhist meeting here in AD80, and even pointed to the place where he sat.
The stories of Jesus in India are not just aimed at gullible tourists - they date back to the 19th Century.
They were part of attempts to explain the striking similarities between Christianity and Buddhism, a matter of great concern to 19th Century scholars - and also a desire among some Christians to root the story of Jesus in Indian soil.
There is talk of the missing years of Jesus, unmentioned in the gospels, when he was between the ages of 12 and 30. Christians form a little more than 2% of India's population
Some say he was in India, picking up Buddhist ideas. These aren't notions that have entirely died out.
The US-based Christian sect, known as the Church Universal and Triumphant, is the best-known modern supporter of the belief that Jesus lived in Kashmir, though they don't believe he died there.
And in Islam, in which Jesus is the penultimate prophet, there is also a minority tradition adopted by the controversial Ahmeddiya sect, that Rozabal does contain the grave of Jesus.
Professional historians tend to laugh out loud when you mention the notion that Jesus might have lived in Kashmir - but his tomb is now firmly on the tourist trail - and a growing number of credulous visitors believe that he was buried in the Rozabal shrine.
And for those who scoff, remember that others have argued, just as implausibly, that Jesus came to Britain.
A theory that was much in vogue when the poet William Blake famously asked: "And did those feet in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen?"
पान की पीक को साफ़ करना कोई आसान काम नहीं है, तेज़ धार वाले वाटर स्प्रे से धोने के बाद भी उसके निशान हटते नहीं हैं इसलिए अब पान थूकने वालों पर 80 पाउंड यानी लगभग छह हज़ार रुपए का जुर्माना लगाया जा रहा है.
पिछले साल दिसंबर में पुलिस अधिकारियों, स्थानीय नेताओं और व्यापारियों की एक बड़ी बैठक बुलाई गई थी जिसमें 500 लोगों इस नई समस्या से छुटकारा पाने के तरीक़ों पर विचार किया था.
स्थानीय काउंसिलर गेविन स्नेडोन कहते हैं, "पान के निशान से ब्रेंट इलाक़े की छवि ख़राब होती है, लोग हमारे इलाक़े को घटिया और गंदा समझने लगते हैं."
ब्रेंट इलाक़े में गुजराती समुदाय के लोगों की अधिक आबादी है, यहाँ भारतीय रेस्तराँ के अलावा पान की भी कई दुकानें हैं.
ब्रेंट के वेम्बली इलाक़े में रहने वाली व्यवसायी गीता सरीन इस समस्या से ख़ासी परेशान हैं, वे कहती हैं, "लोग न सिर्फ़ फुटपाथ पर थूकते हैं बल्कि उन्होंने मेरे घर के दरवाज़े के बाहर और फेंस पर भी पान की पीक फेंकी है. इसकी वजह से मैं काफ़ी परेशान हूँ."
इस समय ब्रेंट काउंसिल को पान की पीक साफ़ करने के लिए सालाना 20 हज़ार पाउंड यानी लगभग 15 लाख रुपए ख़र्च करने पड़ते हैं.
काउंसिल ने लोगों को पान की समस्या के बारे में जागरुक बनाने के लिए 17 हज़ार पाउंड की लागत से एक विशेष अभियान चलाने का फ़ैसला किया है.
इस अभियान के तहत जगह-जगह पोस्टर, बैनर लगाए जाएंगे और लोगों को पान की पीक थूकने से मना किया जाएगा.
काउंसिलर स्नेडोन कहते हैं कि लोग अगर नहीं समझेंगे तो सख़्ती भी की जाएगी, "अगर पुलिस और स्थानीय समुदाय के लोग मिलकर काम करेंगे तो हमारी सड़कों थूकने से पहले लोगों को दो बार सोचना होगा. "
वैसे ब्रेंट अकेला इलाक़ा नहीं है जहाँ यह समस्या है, लंदन से बाहर लेस्टर और बर्मिंघम जैसे कई और शहरों में भी जहाँ दक्षिण एशियाई लोगों की आबादी अधिक है वहाँ यह समस्या देखने को मिल रही है.
सेक्स स्कैंडल में घिरने के बाद पाँच महीने बाद वो किसी प्रतियोगिता में हिस्सा लेने जा रहे हैं.
ईएसपीएन को दिए इंटरव्यू में टाइगर वुड्स ने कहा,''मुझे नहीं पता, मैं थोड़ा घबराया हुआ हूँ. अगर थोड़ी तालियाँ सुनाईं देंगी को मेरे लिए बेहतर होगा.''
टाइगर वुड्स ने कहा,''मैं झूठी ज़िंदगी जी रहा था और मैंने कई लोगों का दिल दुखाया है.''
मास्टर्स प्रतियोगिता अगस्टा में होगी और यही वो स्थान है जहाँ टाइगर वुड्स ने 13 वर्ष पहले अपनी पहली प्रमुख चैम्पियनशिप जीती थी.
ग़ौरतलब है किइसके पहले टाइगर वुड्स ने अपनी ग़लतियों के लिए मित्रों और परिजनों से माफ़ी मांग चुके हैं.
टाइगर वुड्स ने स्वीकार किया था कि उन्होंने अपनी पत्नी से धोखा दिया था.
एक विशेष प्रेस कॉन्फ़्रेंस में वुड्स ने कहा था, "मेरे कई अफ़ेयर रहे हैं. मैंने अपनी पत्नी को धोखा दिया है. मैंने बेवफ़ाई की है. मैंने अपनी पत्नी, अपनी माँ, अपने बच्चों, मित्रों और परिजनों को पीड़ा पहुँचाई है. मैंने उन लोगों को भी पीड़ा पहुँचाई है, जो मेरे प्रशंसक रहे हैं."
टाइगर वुड्स ने कहा था कि उनकी जो थैरेपी चल रही है वो जारी रहेगी और उन्होंने स्वीकार भी किया है कि उन्हें अपने निजी ज़िंदगी में आए तूफ़ान को थामने के लिए अभी काफ़ी कुछ करना है.
दिसंबर, 2009 में ये बात सामने आई थी कि टाइगर वुड्स के अपनी पत्नी के अलावा कुछ अन्य महिलाओं के साथ भी यौन संबंध रहे थे.
इस विवाद ने इतना तूल पकड़ा था कि उसके बाद से टाइगर वुड्स गोल्फ़ नहीं खेल पाए थे.
"I hope to come back... I hope to sell my houses in France and wind up everything and return by December or beginning of next year," Raza, the Indian artist who had popularised the "bindu" worldwide told PTI.
The artist was in the capital recently to unveil a limited edition collection of seven artworks in canvas prints that he had autographed and numbered with support by the Embassy of France.
Born in Madhya Pradesh, Raza, 88, who went to France on a government scholarship and subsequently married French artist Janine Mongillat, currently lives and works in Paris and Gorbio in South France."My long stay in France has been wonderful and all through the 60 years spent in France, I have retained my Indian citizenship and passport and have been coming to India every year to spend two or three months," says the painter.
While eminent painter M F Husain a contemporary member of the Progressive artists' group that he had co-founded in the 50s accepted citizenship of Qatar, Raza says he would not do likewise and will return to India.
"Husain is a dear old friend of mine and an excellent painter. He has already made a decision and I won't comment on that. It is now up to the Government of India to take it up further."
Raza says he has been influenced by many European painters but after a period of self introspection and lot of struggle succeeded in creating a style of his own.
"While I was in India as a student I was influenced by painters like Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Gauguin and others.
I was a poor thinker and did not know how to express myself.
"France taught me that and for the last 20 years. I have been incorporating the ideas of bindu, mandala, prakriti-purusha and panchatatva into my paintings based on the knowledge elements I learnt in France, says the artist.
Prints of his works brought out by Master Art, a newly formed company headed by art collector Meenal Gupta are being pegged at price range between Rs 1.25 lakh to Rs 2 lakh. One of his works, "La Terre", was sold for Rs 91,000,000 at an auction in Christie's in June 2008, while "Maha Bindu" (1988), one of the artist's signature works, was sold for USD 652,000 by Mumbai-based Saffronart in 2007. Painting for about 3-4 hours daily the painter says he spends most of his time "sitting alone, thinking and writing in Hindi and English."
"Art is a matter of a lot of seriousness and pure thinking feeling and love and should be pursued in a serious manner," he says.
He may be 88 but age has not dimmed the enthusiasm of the artist who says he plans to take an active interest in Ekatra, a multi-cultural platform constituting artists, poets, thinkers, writers among others that he helped set up in Delhi in 2009.
The Prime Minister has condoled the passing away of the former Prime Minister of Nepal Shri G.P.Koirala. In a condolence message to the departed leader’s daughter Kumari Sujata Koirala the Prime Minister described Shri G.P Koirala as one of Nepal’s tallest leaders and an elder statesman of South Asia. The text of the Prime Minister’s condolence message is as follows:
“It is with deep sadness that I learnt of the passing away of Shri G. P. Koirala. Shri Koirala was one of Nepal’s tallest leaders and an elder statesman of South Asia. Beginning with his days in the trade union movement, Shri Koirala spent his entire political life championing the cause of the people. He was first and foremost a democrat and his long struggle to usher in democracy in Nepal reached a successful conclusion when he became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Nepal in 1991. He subsequently guided the destiny of the people of Nepal for a further three terms as Prime Minister. Shri Koirala was a mass leader and a statesman, whose knowledge and wisdom guided the polity of Nepal in the right direction at critical junctures in the country’s history. The passing away of Shri Koirala marks the end of an era in Nepalese politics. Shri Koirala had an enlightened vision of India-Nepal relations and worked sincerely to bring the people of the two countries closer together. I have personally had a long association with Shri Koirala and have benefited immensely from his wise counsel and advice not only on issues affecting our bilateral ties but also on matters affecting South Asia as a whole.
I convey my deepest sympathies and condolences to his family, friends and followers.”
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who was summoned by Special Investigation Team (SIT) last week in Gujarat riots case, is yet to respond to the notice. Modi is supposed to appear before the Supreme Court appointed special panel in the week beginning tomorrow. (Read: Gujarat riots: Modi summoned by Supreme Court panel)
The panel chief Former CBI Director R K Raghavan has confirmed to NDTV that the Chief Minister's office is yet to respond to the notice. Modi can either give a specific date on which he will appear before the special probe panel or can even seek an extension of time to reply.
A government official, meanwhile, said, "Nobody knows what is in his (Modi's) mind. It is very difficult to read somebody's thoughts. He is holding all the cards close to his chest which he will reveal only at the right moment".
Modi was summoned to appear before the probe panel following allegations by Zakia Jaffery, widow of former MP Ehsan Jaffery, killed in the Gulburg Society riots. (Read: Wounded Gulbarg Society wants answers from Modi)
The Supreme Court had on April 27 last year asked the SIT to inquire into Zakia's complaint where she alleged that Modi and 62 others, including his cabinet colleagues, police officials and senior bureaucrats aided and abetted the riots which left over 1,000 people dead.
The former MP was killed along with 69 others by a mob at Gulburg society in February 2002 following which Zakia lodged a complaint on June 8, 2006.
Zakia approached the apex court after the Gujarat High Court refused on November 3, 2007 to give any direction and asked her to seek redressal before the Magistrate's Court.
The wife of the slain Congress leader had alleged that between February and May 2002 there was a "deliberate and intentional failure" of the state government to protect the life and property of innocents.
SIT had to face legal hurdles while probing Zakia's complaint when in July last year former BJP MLA Kalu Malivad (one of the 63 people named in the complaint) approached the Gujarat High Court demanding a stay on investigations by SIT with regard to Zakia Jaffery.
The High Court had dismissed the petition saying as the SIT is directly working under the supervision of the Supreme Court no relief can be granted in this matter and dismissed the petition.
Malivad has now approached the apex court challenging the High Court verdict.
In connection with Zakia's complaint, SIT has already recorded statements of number of persons named in her complaint which include, former minister of state for Home Gordhan Zadafia, BJP leader I K Jadeja, former BJP MLA from Lunawada Kalu Malivad and sitting MLA from Mehsana Anil Patel, former IPS officer R B Sreekumar, social activist Teesta Setalvad, IG Shivanand Jha, some other senior police officers and political leaders.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition Ghanshyam Tiwari and Chief Minister Ashok Gehot had a long meeting on Saturday morning where they decided to revoke the suspension of two BLP MLAs Hanuman Beniwal and Rajendra Rathore.
It all began on Wednesday when Beniwal accused the Home Minister of corruption. The records show that the minister, Shanti Dhariwal, responded by saying, 'Saaley, I'll fix you in two minutes." (Dhariwal, however, insists he was talking to an MLA named Saleh Mohammed. An explanation that nobody's buying).
Beniwal was suspended on Wednesday for rowdy behavior. On Thursday, the BJP was further provoked when the Speaker of the House announced that BJP Chief Whip RS Rathore had been suspended for a year for unruly behaviour. Angry protests followed, and 75 BJP MLAs decided to spend the night at the Assembly as a sign of protest. Rathore was among them.
Chidambaram said this in a statement after US Attorney General and Head of Justice Department Eric Holder spoke to him over telephone on Friday night and clarified to him about a number of aspects concerning Headley's plea bargaining with the US government in a case related to conspiracy in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. (Chidambaram's full statement)
After the discussion, Chidambaram said he has directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and other agencies to prepare questions for Headley.
"It is my understanding that India would be able to obtain access to Headley to question him in a properly-constituted judicial proceeding. Such judicial proceeding could be either pre-trial or during an inquiry or trial.
"It is also my understanding that Headley is obliged to cooperate fully and truthfully in such proceedings," he said in the statement.
He said the conversation with Holder has clarified a number of aspects concerning the plea agreement. (Read: US statement on Headley pleading guilty)
During the long talk, Holder drew pointed attention to the portion under the Chapter "Cooperation" of the 35-page plea agreement where Headley agrees that, when directed by the United States Attorneys Office, he will fully and truthfully participate in any debriefings for the purpose of gathering intelligence or national security information.
"Defendant (Headley) further agrees that, when directed by the United States Attorneys Office, he will fully and truthfully testify in any foreign judicial proceedings held in the United States by way of deposition, video conferencing or letters rogatory. Defendant agrees to the postponement of his sentencing until after the conclusion of his cooperation. (Read: Headley guilty - Why the plea deal?)
"I have today directed NIA and the other Agencies concerned in the case to quickly prepare the documents necessary to start a judicial proceeding in which Indian Authorities could require David Coleman Headley to answer questions and/or to testify," Chidambaram said.
NIA has already registered a case on November 11 last against Headley and his Pakistani-Canadian friend Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
He said there was another aspect of the "plea agreement" which was of enormous significance as it "is the most damning indictment of the role played by certain persons in Pakistan. (Read: Headley plea strongly indicts Pak, says India)
In his plea agreement, Headley has admitted to conspiring with LeT members. He has admitted to meeting with and receiving instructions from them; he has admitted to attending training camps organised by the LeT on five separate occasions; he has admitted to meeting in Pakistan with various co-conspirators including but not limited to LeT members; and he has admitted to being privy to the attacks planned in Mumbai and the dispatch of a team of attackers by sea, the statement said.
The minister said Pakistan was in a state of denial for many months after the attacks of 26/11. Thereafter, grudgingly and bowing to the pressure applied by India through the dossiers and otherwise, Pakistan initiated proceedings against a few of the persons involved in the conspiracy, even while key conspirators are still at large.
"The plea agreement should spur Pakistan to take action against all the conspirators and bring them to justice. Nothing short of that will be acceptable to India or will satisfy world opinion," Chidambaram said.
That is Roberto Mielgo's response to the fact that it is commercially viable to catch and keep live tuna in off-shore pens - or ranches - in the Spanish Mediterranean and feed them vast amounts of expensive caught fish (around 10kg of feed fish serve to make the tuna put on 1kg of body weight).
And to cull them by hand using divers, ship them to shore, package them in a purpose-built factory and fly them whole - on the same day - to market on the other side of the world.
Roberto Mielgo calls himself an independent fisheries consultant.
A former tuna rancher himself, he had a change of heart and became one of the most prominent campaigners for the preservation of bluefin tuna, one of the most highly-prized - and fought over - species and foodstuffs in the world.
Fishing lobby
The fact that the United Nations commission set up to preserve endangered species failed, at its conference in Doha this week, to put an international trade ban on this type of tuna, is a bitter disappointment to him.
But, he says, it is not necessarily a surprise, given the strength of the global fishing lobby.
"The Japanese market eats 80% of all the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna that is produced," Mr Mielgo says.
 |   If you ask me whether to save the stock or to save some jobs, my answer is pretty clear - save the stock  Roberto Mielgo, Fisheries consultant |
"There are people who are trying to manage a sound business with an environmental perspective that do abide by the rules and I have great respect for them.
"Others do not abide by the rules. It is not a question of criminalising the entire sector, but one has to see the overall problem and that is that tuna ranching is a big part of the problem. It has grown out of proportion," he said.
"If you ask me whether to save the stock or to save some jobs, my answer is pretty clear - save the stock. The stock belongs to all of us. It's not because two or three companies will have to close that I should not protect a species.
"We have been playing with fire for the past eight years, we have been overfishing the species to the brink of collapse. It has been a crazy gold-rush."
'Dangerous plundering'
Juan Serrano disagrees.
As managing director of Balfego, a company that runs Spain's biggest tuna ranch at L'Ametlla de Mar, on the Catalan coast, he has seen profit margins dive.
 Most tuna caught in the Mediterranean ends up on Japanese plates |
He vehemently disputes the idea that the bluefin tuna is, in his waters at least, a threatened species.
"What we are doing is not only entirely legal," Mr Serrano says.
"It is sustainable. There is ample scientific evidence from independent sources which confirms our belief that bluefin tuna populations in the western Mediterranean are actually increasing."
Environmentalists say the average size of the individual tuna caught for Balfego's ranch is going down steadily year on year - a sign, allegedly, of a dangerous plundering of the stock.
This, again, is disputed by Mr Serrano. It is not as if the extraction of tuna from the Spanish Mediterranean is a free-for-all.
The entire national quota of tuna is caught by six boats in the single month per year they are allowed to operate.
Laid on ice
They deliver their whole catch to ranches along the Spanish coast.
The impressive size of the fish Balfego chooses to show me being harvested on the particular day I visited can not be questioned.
Specimens of 150kg - longer than a man in length - are culled by divers with a spear-gun, hoisted on board, headed and gutted within minutes and laid in ice to preserve the valuable flesh at its best.
 Tuna fillets are graded according to quality |
"Within this industry," says Mr Serrano, "there are good and bad operators."
"No doubt there are some that operate on the wrong side of the rules.
"What the EU needs to do is punish the bad ones, take away their licenses. But we should not all be tarred with the same brush. Sustainability is vital to us, as is transparency in what we do."
There is, of course, an irony that, while fishing authorities in Brussels openly declare their support for a moratorium on bluefin fishing in the Mediterranean, their rules continue to allow tuna to be caught by boats which were constructed with the help of public subsidies and processed in factories built, similarly, with EU financial aid.
There are, undoubtedly, many in Brussels who will breathe a sigh of relief at the decision of the Doha conference.
For now, it seems, the fishing lobby has won the day.
'Great worry'
Local authorities with the interests of the fishermen at heart are not, however, celebrating yet.
Marti Sans, in charge of the Catalan government's department of fishing in Barcelona, says the outlook for the tuna-catchers is fairly bleak.
He stresses that no public money currently subsidises their operations.
And he acknowledges that the days of net-catching tuna in the region could be numbered.
"This is our great worry," he says. "Because we know at the moment that the pressure is very strong.
"Environmental organisations have made this issue a big priority. At the moment, we are defending a type of fishing that has been been carried out well and rationally. But we have to accept that decisions are taken at higher levels which may force us into a very different situation and ultimately threaten what we do."