Next Wednesday, 11th of February, Abel Caballero, Mayor of Vigo and President of the Organizing Committee of World Fishing Exhibition- Vigo'09 and Alfonso Paz- Andrade, President of the Executive Committee, will launch, at the Estación Marítima de Vigo, the 2009 exhibition -which will be held from 16th to 19th of September at the exhibition centre "José Nogueira Dalmás" (IFEVI).

The event will be attended by the Spanish Minister of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, Elena Espinosa; the Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs in the Galician Regional Government, Carmen Gallego; the President and the Director General of Caixagalicia, Mauro Varela and José Luis Méndez respectively; the President of the Port Authority of Vigo, Jesús Paz; the President of the Council of La Coruña, Salvador Fernández Moreda; the President of IGAPE, Álvaro Álvarez Blázquez; the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Vigo, José García Costas and the President of the Confederación de Empresarios de la Provincia de Pontevedra (Confederation of Entrepreneurs in Pontevedra), José Manuel Fernández Alvariño, as well as by a great number of authorities and Galician entrepreneurs.

The presentation will start at 7 pm and the First Aqua Farming International exhibition will be presented in parallel. AQA 2009 is a professional exhibition devoted to aquaculture that will coincide with the World Fishing Exhibition and will have a surface of 3 000 square metres.