An order of the day to commit Governor Alessandra Todde and her council to take measures against the "invasion" of the blue crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) in the sea, lagoons and ponds of Sardinia and, at the same time, to facilitate the provision of aid and compensation to operators in the fishing sector who are suffering the damage caused by the presence of the now infamous and aggressive crustacean.
It is the one signed in a bipartisan manner by all the groups present in the regional council (with the signatures of the group leaders Mula, Deriu, Truzzu, Cocciu, Ciusa, Ticca, Orrù, Porcu, Peru, Agus, Cocco, Pizzuto, Sorgia) and where we read, in the preface: « On the island there is a massive presence of blue crabs in all the regional lagoons (...) a highly invasive and aggressive species» that is «decimating clams, cockles and other bivalves» .
The document also lists "the main areas affected" by the invasion: the Gulf of Oristano, the mouths of the Cedrino and Coghinas rivers, the lagoons of Tortolì, San Teodoro, the Calich in Alghero, Porto Pozzo, Cesaraccio, Pilo, San Giovanni Muravera, Porto Pino, the Feraxi pond, the Sa Praia pond, the Santa Gilla pond.
The signatories then put down in black and white the requests for intervention addressed to the Todde administration, "in order to contain the phenomenon of the spread of the blue crab to protect the regional fishing sector and compensate the operators in the sector".
The council, in particular, asks the regional council to:
- take action to speed up the spending of regional resources already allocated to compensate for the damages suffered by operators in the sector
- verify the need and opportunity to proceed with the allocation of additional resources
- implement actions that, alongside those already provided for by the national legislator, allow for the invasive phenomenon currently underway to be adequately countered
