The Guardia Civil and the Servicio de Inspección Pesquera (Junta) found that the fishpens off Salobreña that ought to have been inactive, have been producing mussels on the market.
In different phrases, these shellfish have been being marketed with out authorisation or well being management. The Police discovered round a tonne of reside mussel and returned them to the ocean.
As a preventative measure additionally they confiscated the launch that the fish pen homeowners used to managed the pens and convey again the mussels that have been prepared on the market.
The police found that it was exactly the corporate that was in control of dismantling the pens within the defunct set up that had taken benefit of the scenario to farm mussels throughout the entire summer time, allegedly in cahoots with the homeowners of the fish farm to promote the mussels by the blackmarket in order that they’d be untraceable and never must move by well being controls.
The police have been joined by the Servicio Marítimo Provincial primarily based in Motril, officers from the Servicio de Protección de La Naturaleza (Seprona) additionally primarily based in Motril and inspectors from the Junta’s fishery management. After they sailed out to the pens they caught the crew of the fish farm launch redhanded, loading 98 sacks of mussels, weighing roughly a tonne, onto the boat.
The corporate that ought to have dismantled the pens, the supervisor of the fish farm and the three employees caught loading mussels onto their launch have all been charged below the Ley 1/2002, de 4 de abril, de Ordenación, Fomento y Management de La Pesca Marítima,el Marisqueo y la Acuicultura Marina .
(Information: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
