Fraternities will protest in Santiago in defense of their puppy sanctuaries

The attacks of the facefar from closing, it gets worse. This Saturday Galician Federation of Fishermen’s Associations held a general assembly where, as planned, it was agreed appeal against the decision of the Ministry of the Sea which profane their barnacle shelters allowing the bateeiros to pull out the cheek.

In the statement after the meeting signed by the president of the Association, Jose Antonio Perez Sieirathe fraternities confirm the green light to file an appeal against the department “against the decisions issued modifying the order establishing the reservation of exclusive areas for the exploitation of barnacles.”

Will do it “as soon as possible”, They progress, although not specifying more. What the date exists for is to take to the streets your deep discomfort with Mar’s position. They will do it next April 15, Saturday, in Santiagowhere they invited a concentration in the defense of the percebeiro sector under the slogan “Against political tampering in the sea sector”.

Because a “mistake” besides “outrage” is what the fraternities feel was committed against the barnacles of the department led by Rosa Quintana. For this reason, they accuse against “take”. decisions that appear to be based on political support and non-protection of resources and in sustainable management, the two are the same”, to add that “fishing and shellfishing in Galicia are subject to special regulation and control through exploitation plans, and the sector is one in which the hunting sector is sufficiently regulated and controlled in the same way that we will not notice them ».

The war facing both sectors revolves around the bateeiros’ claim that they can manage mussel farming, the cheek, located in exclusive shellfish exploitation areas. The Xunta has opened some of these areas to mussel farmers, who consider them insufficient, while the shellfish sector demands the opposite. Specifically, the key is in Article 13 of the Regulation on the Management of Shellfish Resources December 2019, which leaves the management of the image in the hands of the brotherhoods, whose abolition is demanded by the bateeiros.

Doubts about the environmental cost

The confrontation has only increased in recent weeks, to the extent that both are using it as a weapon to support their demands the economic weight of their activities and even impact on the environment from the same.

Namely, on Friday, on the eve of the meeting of the Galician Federation of Fraternities, seven from the province of Pontevedra with the Sector for Wounds, under the chairmanship Jose Manuel Rosas Oteroannounced a sharp statement in which Mussels accused of “victimism”while appealing to “scientists, public opinion and the administration that governs us” about the “questions” that their sector raises.

Among them, they ask whether “or destruction that the coast systematically suffers the province of A Coruña and Pontevedra — except for “a scant 15% of ZEP zones — cannot be considered “s an alleged environmental crime», since part of that coast is in the Natura 2000 network. They reflect the fact that the selective extraction of a resource is not the same as the destruction of the habitat of many other species.

They also express their own Doubts about whether bateeiros comply with waste management rules which generates your activity. They are obliged to deposit them on land, but they are questioning the Administration about the damage they could cause to the marine ecosystem after 60 years of dumping “indiscriminately thousands and thousands of tons into the sea”.

They also wonder At whose expense was the sharp increase in mussel production? in recent years, reaching 250,000 tons and more than 150 million in sales.

“This seriously harms the sustainability and productive future of rivers and favoritism ruin duns eo enriching doutros“, they denounce.