Benito Gonzalez, chairman of the town's Fishermen's Guild said the whole of the Ria Arousa, a sea loch famed for its shellfish which provides nearly two-thirds of Spain's mussels, was in a state of fear.


"Everybody here lives from the sea," he said. "If this gets into this area the mussels will be ruined and thousands of people will suffer. It will cause more than triple the damage already suffered on the Coast of Death."