Seabeds without curls. This is the sad photograph taken by Cnr researchers who in recent months have studied the Sinis Marine Protected Area from top to bottom.
The documentation states that the number of specimens has decreased drastically despite the stop to collection for four years now.
A fact that pushes the mayor Andrea Abis, as well as president of the Sinis Marine Protected Area, to blame illegal fishing: «Eurchins don't disappear on their own. What makes us think is that in the areas where specimens were increasing in these years of closure, for example in Catalan and Seu, the resource has now decreased drastically, the situation is negative".
At this point it is almost certain that the Ministry of the Environment which regulates the park will not allow the reopening of the collection. What the fishermen of Cabras are asking for instead. Mayor Andrea Abis, however, recognizes that not everyone can be harmed by the phenomenon of illegal construction.
For this reason he is ready to ask the regional fisheries department for immediate intervention: «We note that the Region continues, despite the negative environmental data, to allow the harvesting of urchins in the island's seas, derogating from the correct 2020 rule of stopping the collection for three years due to the extinction of the specimens. If it is not possible to fish in the MPA, if no one is able to protect it from illegal fishing, then we strongly ask that a specific project be set up for fishermen authorized to work in our park, as has already been done for the protected area of Alghero. The Region is in a state of contradiction, this is evident, the Ministry blocks the collection, the Region instead allows it, despite the very negative scientific picture." Abis cuts it short: «Let the recovery program financed three years ago and never spent be carried out».