Fene is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern

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. It is located to the northeast of Galicia on the

Ria of Ferrol The Ria of Ferrol (or bay of Ferrol; Spanish and Galician: ''ría de Ferrol'') is a ria in Galicia, Spain, the saline estuary of the Xuvia River. Located in the province of A Coruña, in the northwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, it forms al ...

Economy

The Navantia Shipyards and services in the parts which are nearer Ferrol, the rest of the borough devotes itself to

farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

and

fishing Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques inclu ...

. In the late 1960s the gantry crane of the shipyards of Astilleros y Talleres del Noroeste (ASTANO) in

Ferrolterra Ferrol is a coastal ''comarca'' in the northwest of the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It is also known as Ferrolterra. The area is 613.4 km2, and the overall population of this ''comarca'' was 161,154 at the 2011 Census; the latest offic ...

was the largest in

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References

Municipalities in the Province of A Coruña {{galicia-geo-stub