PERU fishing with guts to report…
The planned removal of two million seven hundred thousand (2,700,000) cubic meters of seabed may cause mass mortalities in cultured Scallop located in direct proximity to the Puerto General San Martin in Paracas.
A critical point for the modernization of Puerto San Martín is to deepen the seabed in front of the harbor dock.
The dealership group Puerto San Martin undertook dredging (digging) the seabed up to 16 meters deep, which corresponds to the extraction of two million seven hundred thousand (2,700,000) cubic meters of marine sediment.
We can compare this work with a basement excavated earth, said Stefan Austermühle, Executive Director of the World Association Blue, Peruvian NGOs for marine conservation.
With increasing water turbidity dissolved oxygen content is reduced and consequently the marine animals die because they can not breathe.
The cumulative effect of these impacts has caused around the world frequently mortality fisheries, such as in 2010 in Rushan Bay on the northern coast of China, which could prove scientifically shell mass mortality in aquaculture because dredged from the nearby port.
It is likely that dredging will last weeks in the construction phase and is repeated regularly as a maintenance activity for port operation would cause serious economic damage to farmers fishermen in the area.
Rushan fishing economic losses gave reason to juridiciales processes that resulted in compensation payments to fishermen.
We believe it is urgent to create a debate between fishing local actors, the dealership group and the authorities concerned to re-evaluate plans to modernize the port civil society. You must ensure that you work with advanced technology to minimize environmental impact and an exemption from compensation payments for damage that occurred is unacceptable. We are not against the country's economic growth clarifies Austermühle contrary to believe it is necessary to ensure that the growth of a productive sector is not at the expense of other productive sectors such as fisheries and tourism in Paracas, both depending setting a medium saludable.¨
SOURCE: Peru.mundoazul.org
