Fishing associations are raising a new alarm about the damage caused by cormorants, which are compromising a significant portion of fish production. This despite a regional regulation, which derives from the community one, which provides for compensation but which remains unimplemented "due to arbitrary interpretations by the bureaucracy of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, which do not even take into account the scientific reports that are commissioned to experts from the two Sardinian universities". The associations report that a significant portion of the allocation to implement the measures remains unspent, with hundreds of families, businesses and workers who see their income compromised due to bureaucracy .
Already a month ago the associations (Agci Agrital Sardegna, Associazione Armatori Sardegna, Confcooperative Fedagripesca Sardegna Area Pesca and Legacoop Sardegna Settore Pesca e Acquacoltura) had asked for a meeting with the Region, now they report that they have not received a response and that there is " an absence of a real and concrete will to discuss objective elements and look at the real objective: to avoid the crisis of an entire sector and indeed to promote its development ". This is why, addressing the president Alessandra Todde, they ask for immediate intervention so as not to have to implement forms of protest: "Listen to us and help us bring serenity to a sector that is severely tested by the crisis and the inability of many operators to pursue paths of structural economic growth. The current legislation must be respected, otherwise it will be impossible to avoid important demonstrations by all operators in the sector and all the people involved ".
(Unioneonline / r. sp.)