Over 4.5 tons of fish products belonging to so-called demersal species were seized in total during an operation coordinated by the National Fisheries Control Center (CCNP) of the General Command of the Coast Guard. In action the personnel of the Olbia and Palermo Maritime Departments who have raised administrative penalties for a total amount of 6,000 euros.
Subject of the activity, a series of cross-checks with the monitoring systems of maritime traffic: under control for days the fishing vessels engaged in deep-sea crustacean fishing in the central Tyrrhenian Sea, subject to particular restrictions to protect the Mediterranean rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostris) , the Mediterranean red shrimp (Aristaemorpha foliacea), the Mediterranean purple shrimp (Aristeus antennatus).
The intervention of the Coast Guard of the Offices of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Rotondo - coordinated by the Regional Control Center of the Northern Sardinia Coast Guard - was triggered by the continuation of the fishing activity of one of the monitored vessels, in the waters in front of La Maddalena, for several hours on the night of last Saturday, a day during which this type of fishing is prohibited in the Western Mediterranean area.
The fishing boat and two other units were inspected once they returned to Golfo Aranci where they unloaded the fish product to store it in a refrigerated truck. The inspectors of the Coast Guard thus proceeded to the seizure of about 3 tons of fish product (scampi, red shrimp and purple shrimp), raising the relative penalties to be borne by the three inspected units, after noting on the accompanying labels the erroneous indication of the "Southern Sicily" as a fishing area for the same product.
(Unioneonline / ss)
