The legal intervention group welcomes the stop to the collection of sea urchins starting from next season and until 2024, as decided with an amendment that introduces the rule into the omnibus law, under discussion in the Regional Council.

"It was about time - says Stefano Deliperi for Grig - The situation is really serious and requires strong safeguards, at least the suspension of the sea urchin harvest for at least three years. Finally, the Regional Council of Sardinia has taken a decision of common sense and approved a fishing moratorium from January 2022 to April 2024 ”.

"The bad regional environmental policy in this area - continues Deliperi - risks very seriously making sea urchins disappear from our seas. Now, finally, a regional rule of simple common sense gives back some hope for the protection of sea urchins in the waters sardines ".

"As well known - observes the association - the sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) is rapidly rarefying, especially in the Sardinian seas due to the heavy withdrawal for gastronomic purposes, so much so that more and more restaurateurs, rightly, they exclude them from their menus. Abusive withdrawals are rampant and there are no count of kidnappings by the police and, from the investigations, dangerous forms of criminal associations and black market also emerge, while they are still at the experimental stage. hedgehog farms ".

In December 2019, 7,089 citizens clamored to the ministers of agricultural resources and the environment and the regional councilor for agriculture for a three-year moratorium on sea urchin fishing, marine monitoring and support measures for temporarily unable fishermen to fishing.

(Unioneonline / vl)