Vázquez Suárez moves from Fisheries Development to the Directorate General of Fisheries

The Council of the Xunta de Galicia approved on November 9, 2026, a remodeling of the management team of the Department of the Sea: María de los Ángeles Vázquez Suárez leaves the General Directorate of Fisheries Development and moves to occupy the General Directorate of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Technological Innovation, while José David Gómez Brandariz will be the new head of Fisheries Development. The movements are published in the Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) no. 215, of Tuesday, November 10, 2026, section II (Authorities and personnel), through decrees 131/2026, 133/2026, and 134/2026, all dated November 9.

The three decrees were signed by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda Valenzuela, together with the Minister of the Sea, Marta Villaverde Acuña, and were issued upon the proposal of the latter. The invoked regulation is Law 1/1983, of February 22, on the regulatory norms of the Xunta and its Presidency (articles 4.13 and 34.2) and, in the case of dismissal, article 28 of Law 16/2010, of December 17, on the organization and functioning of the general administration and the autonomous public sector of Galicia. The decisions were deliberated at the meeting of the Council of the Xunta on November 9.

A technical dismissal due to transfer to another destination

Decree 131/2026, published on p. 56355, provides that María de los Ángeles Vázquez Suárez be dismissed “due to transfer to another destination” as general director of Fisheries Development, “thanking her for the services rendered.” This formula is standard when a high-ranking official is relocated to another unit within the same administration, and the fact that the dismissal and the new appointment bear the same date confirms this.

Decree 133/2026 (p. 56357) appoints Vázquez Suárez as general director of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Technological Innovation, a position that became vacant after Isaac Miguel Rosón Sánchez-Brunete left that post by Decree 121/2026, of November 2 (DOG no. 210, of November 3, 2026, p. 55057). On that same day, Decree 125/2026 appointed him general secretary of Industry and Energy Development of the Department of Economy and Industry.

The new head of Fisheries Development

Decree 134/2026 (p. 56358) appoints José David Gómez Brandariz as general director of Fisheries Development, who until now held the sub-directorate general of Management, Education and Sectoral Relations in the same general directorate. The position was awarded to him by the Order of October 15, 2026, which resolved a free appointment call, published in DOG no. 202, of October 23, 2026 (p. 53530), under code PE.C04.00.001.15770.001, level 30, subgroup A/A1 and destination center at the General Directorate of Fisheries Development, in Santiago de Compostela.

The trajectory of the three officials is as follows:

• María de los Ángeles Vázquez Suárez: leaves the General Directorate of Fisheries Development and assumes Fisheries, Aquaculture and Technological Innovation.
• José David Gómez Brandariz: is promoted from deputy general director of Management, Education and Sectoral Relations to general director of Fisheries Development.
• Isaac Miguel Rosón Sánchez-Brunete: leaves the Ministry of the Sea and becomes secretary general of Industry and Energy Development.

The competencies at stake

According to Decree 50/2021, of March 11, which approves the organic structure of the Ministry of the Sea, the General Directorate of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Technological Innovation is responsible for promoting the competitiveness of fishery products, shellfish gathering and aquaculture, the promotion of their quality, and the conservation, protection and sustainable management of marine resources. Until now, Vázquez Suárez had been exercising the competencies of Fisheries Development by delegation of the counselor (Order of February 21, 2022), as appears in the resolutions she signed in September and October 2026.

The DOG of the same day includes other appointments agreed upon by the Council of the Xunta, such as Decree 132/2026, by which Margarita Segade Castro is appointed general director of Environmental Quality and Sustainability. The numbering shows that the Ministry of the Sea concentrated its movements in decrees 131, 133 and 134.

The change arrives on the same day that the Ministry of the Sea reorganizes two general directorates that manage the fleet, shellfish gathering and aquaculture. The departure of Rosón Sánchez-Brunete towards Industry and the internal promotion of Gómez Brandariz outline a management team with greater weight of the department’s own personnel. For shipowners, guilds and aquaculture companies, the key lies in checking whether this reorganization alters the processing times for aid and the management of marine resources.

Source: Official Gazette of Galicia, no. 215, November 10, 2026, section II (Authorities and personnel), pp. 56355-56358 (official reference: CVE-DOG: y180abe6-7lx8-swg3-f817-ku4ndcn2ekk0, bvpsmen2-wkt5-5v64-2y25-o16h157qmg84 and noju3im0-xcg7-adh3-wz10-db9p1vht3ie8).