PERU fishing with guts to report…
“He flew and flew along the wide avenues of hunger. The city was a cemetery of pelicans. Blow dry birds lay on one side of the tracks or in landfills…”. This is a paragraph of the story “From the Sea to the City”, The writer Oscar ancashino Colchado Lucio, which tells the story of “Long-billed”A pelican “cocho bird” born on the White Isle, and ventured to fly to the city (Chimbote), when her mother did not return. Upon arrival, he met with a cruel reality, because there was nothing to eat.
This story could describe what is currently happening with seabirds of our coastline. Hundreds of them have migrated from sea to markets Chimbote, to expect that charitable people feed them because in the vast ocean just food is scarce.
It will be worse. The Provincial Municipality of Santa, through the Management of Environmental and Public Health, began more than 20 days a humanitarian crusade that aims to feed this species has invaded several areas of Chimbote.
The Biologist National University of Santa (UNS), Romulo Aguilar Loayza, welcomed this campaign to alleviate hunger in birds. However, it considered that nature do its job and that the only future of this species in our city is death.
“How much of the budget is going to get (to continue fed birds). 50 No longer will later be 100 or a thousand. Once the budget is up, the birds just going to die. It is the natural process, we will not stop, it will cause birds to die”Said the expert, adding that other birds as fur seal Piquero and are also dying from starvation.
RESPONSIBLE. Anchovy shortages caused primarily by predation is the main reason for that species go hungry, Loayza says Aguilar.
“We have Anchovy. The Instituto del Mar del Peru (Imarpe) notes that the species does not reach the million and a half tons. The recovery process would take several years. And then what we're going to continue to feed the pelicans? The only thing you can do is wait for the outcome (death). We must learn from that. We must call for the removal reflection Anchovy is not only natural, it's human. The Ministry of Production has committed serious mistakes in that regard”Criticized professional.
To the biologist, the only solution is that “die as the appropriate actions to disbelieve infectious foci are taken”.
OPTIMISM. Despite the hard but honest statements Loayza biologist Romulus; the manager of the Management of Environmental and Public Health, Raul Mendez Cruz, said that the crusade for the “cochos birds” is reducing the number of deaths.
He said the first week was not encouraging because daily were between 10 and 15 dead pelicans, but in recent weeks found only between 2-4 birds. He acknowledged that the campaign has no budget, it just depends on the goodwill of the population. He questioned fisheries managers do not support the Natura NGOs and not to rule.
“We recolectamos between 4 and 5 buckets of fish from the pier and otherwise we come across people who donate food. Or simply, the same people get to where they are and feed the birds. But it is unfortunate that fishing vessel owners do not support us by collecting food”, Officer criticized.
LOCATION. The “cochos birds”As they are called the Pelicans, they come in droves to Chimbote. It is common to see them outside markets Alfonso Ugarte, La Perla, Dos de Mayo, El Progreso, plus the same dock, account Mendez Cruz, who reports that would be more than 400 birds that are in our city.
SOURCE: Diariocorreo.pe
