PERU fishing with guts to report…
The Catalan working around the clock in order to streamline and toughen penalties for theft Coral (Corallium rubrum), an endemic species of the Mediterranean whose main threat is the Rogue Fishing. Currently, a kilo of Coral can sell about 800 euros a kilo, depending on its quality, more than double previous years.
The new decree, which should be in place for next season, looking for a definitive end to the "ghost" of impunity that plans for decades on this closed circle are Coral poachers.
In the past 15 years, poachers have plundered Coraleros the Girona coastline from the Coast of Begur to France. During this period we have seized 181 kilos. In total they have imposed over a hundred administrative complaints.
In the last 15 years they have seized 181 kilos of Coral plundered by poachers
It is agreeing with a limit Sector Reef Fisheries per license year to 300 kilos, compared to current 400 kilos, and keep both the closure of November 1 to April 30, as the exclusive licensing ten annual for inland waters.
Violation par excellence Coraleros addition to the lack of license, Reef Fisheries is one less than the permitted size. This represents 70% of complaints.
Looters also submerged reef in the waters of protected areas and closed seasons.
Successful reimplantation
The new decree coincides with the first successful attempt to return to Coral Sea colonies illegally caught. Of the 14.5 kilos reimplanted into the Illes Medes, archipelago off the coast of Catalonia, 90% survived. His health is not optimal, but still growing.
Between September and October 2011 a number of factors came together that allowed for the first time, return to its natural habitat Coral chopped illegally. This objective was not "easy to achieve" predicted UB Biologist Cristina Linares. The fact forfeit right out of the water with life-and-still transfer them immediately to the Higher Council for Scientific Research, where some kind of plates made of putty waiting for their reintroduction they stuck colonies were circumstances as Experts difficult to repeat.
SOURCE: Sociedad.elpais.com
