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02-06-2022, 09:30 PM
Radio Sintonia:
Three poachers and a restaurant sanctioned by the Civil Guard in Fuerteventura.
The Civil Guard of the Maritime Detachment of Fuerteventura, belonging to the Provincial Maritime Service of Las Palmas, has denounced, on May 25, three poachers and the head of a restaurant for seven infractions committed in the field of fishing as well as law 33/2011 General Public Health, when they were caught marketing an illegal catch of 60 kilos of fish that did not comply with the hygienic sanitary conditions in a restaurant of Morro Jable, without having passed this genre any type of sanitary control in order to its commercialization.
Collaboration, capture and monitoring
As a result of the surveillance carried out by the components of the Maritime Detachment on the coast of the island of Fuerteventura, they recently found indications of a series of illegal practices of a group of people, who repeatedly, taking advantage of their displacements from the neighboring island of Lanzarote, were engaged in poaching on the coasts of Majorca.
Based on the constant collaboration carried out by the Maritime Service with the personnel of the Surveillance of the marine ZEC of the Canary Islands, dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition, a location device was established that allowed to verify how this group formed by three people, exercised an illegal fishing activity in the area of Playa de Punta del Viento in Morrojable, where they had draft an art of gillnet (cazonal) from the coast, given the circumstance that in addition this area is limited in terms of access for vehicles and people because it is cataloged as a Critical Point of Interest.
Fishing with gillnets in the Canary Islands, as reflected in the Regulation of the Canary Islands Fisheries Law (Decree 182/2004) in its article 17. D) is prohibited, with the exceptions of some areas on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and La Palma, mentioned in Annex I thereof.
For this reason and in order to know the final destination of the catches, the Civil Guard carried out a discreet follow-up checking how they were going to be delivered to the morro Jable hotel establishment, which is why the agents imminently prevented the sale of the captured species that exceeded 60 kg of fish without meeting the optimal health conditions for the consumption chain, since these catches had not passed at any time the preventive and mandatory sanitary control in order to be marketed.
It should be noted that this type of actions carried out by the Provincial Maritime Service are of great importance, not only for the protection of natural resources, but also for the monitoring of the health conditions in which the fish arrives in the consumption chain, since these catches had not passed any sanitary hygienic action for its commercialization and consumption.
The offenders, both the poachers and the restaurant, face various sanctions to the Law 17/2003 of Fishing of the Canary Islands for the infractions committed in the matter of fishing as well as to the General Law 33/2011 of Public Health for the commercialization and conservation of the catches, proceeding to the seizure of the fishing gear as well as the more than 60 kilos of captured species that were deposited in the fishermen's guild of Gran Tarajal, which verified its traceability for its subsequent delivery to charity.
Three poachers and a restaurant sanctioned by the Civil Guard in Fuerteventura.
The Civil Guard of the Maritime Detachment of Fuerteventura, belonging to the Provincial Maritime Service of Las Palmas, has denounced, on May 25, three poachers and the head of a restaurant for seven infractions committed in the field of fishing as well as law 33/2011 General Public Health, when they were caught marketing an illegal catch of 60 kilos of fish that did not comply with the hygienic sanitary conditions in a restaurant of Morro Jable, without having passed this genre any type of sanitary control in order to its commercialization.
Collaboration, capture and monitoring
As a result of the surveillance carried out by the components of the Maritime Detachment on the coast of the island of Fuerteventura, they recently found indications of a series of illegal practices of a group of people, who repeatedly, taking advantage of their displacements from the neighboring island of Lanzarote, were engaged in poaching on the coasts of Majorca.
Based on the constant collaboration carried out by the Maritime Service with the personnel of the Surveillance of the marine ZEC of the Canary Islands, dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition, a location device was established that allowed to verify how this group formed by three people, exercised an illegal fishing activity in the area of Playa de Punta del Viento in Morrojable, where they had draft an art of gillnet (cazonal) from the coast, given the circumstance that in addition this area is limited in terms of access for vehicles and people because it is cataloged as a Critical Point of Interest.
Fishing with gillnets in the Canary Islands, as reflected in the Regulation of the Canary Islands Fisheries Law (Decree 182/2004) in its article 17. D) is prohibited, with the exceptions of some areas on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and La Palma, mentioned in Annex I thereof.
For this reason and in order to know the final destination of the catches, the Civil Guard carried out a discreet follow-up checking how they were going to be delivered to the morro Jable hotel establishment, which is why the agents imminently prevented the sale of the captured species that exceeded 60 kg of fish without meeting the optimal health conditions for the consumption chain, since these catches had not passed at any time the preventive and mandatory sanitary control in order to be marketed.
It should be noted that this type of actions carried out by the Provincial Maritime Service are of great importance, not only for the protection of natural resources, but also for the monitoring of the health conditions in which the fish arrives in the consumption chain, since these catches had not passed any sanitary hygienic action for its commercialization and consumption.
The offenders, both the poachers and the restaurant, face various sanctions to the Law 17/2003 of Fishing of the Canary Islands for the infractions committed in the matter of fishing as well as to the General Law 33/2011 of Public Health for the commercialization and conservation of the catches, proceeding to the seizure of the fishing gear as well as the more than 60 kilos of captured species that were deposited in the fishermen's guild of Gran Tarajal, which verified its traceability for its subsequent delivery to charity.