After the socialist triumph in the general elections of 1982, he was appointed General Director of Fisheries Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, as well as Spanish representative at the FAO World Conference on Fisheries, and at the II Latin American Fisheries Congress .
Trala vitoria socialista nas eleccións xerais de 1982 foi nomeado director xeral de ordenación pesqueira do Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca e Alimentación asemade que representante español na Conferencia Mundial da FAO sobre pesca e no II Congreso Latinoamericano de Pesca.