When Guillermo came to work at Mauritania Caladerowhere he exercised as a captain, he found “Fishing in abundance and sizes well above the legally required “. A lot of species, with all kinds of pelagics or the coveted cephalopods, which have led a good handful of Galician Ships to champion in the Maghreb Country, by hand of mixed societies, to extract octopus or squid. Companies like Pescapuerta, Pereira o Baihizes They have reinforced their capacity in recent years, with local partners, and ships such as former Monte tams, Manuel Mascato, The appointment, Avedal, Ramos first o Portomayor. But of that vergel with which Guillermo ran into – which is not his real name because “Here it is very dangerous to talk about what people “– There is almost nothing left. Sources of Galician companies based in the country verify the sad testimony of this captain.
Turkish
Why Dozens of Turkish signs of great capacity they have raised the pressure on the fisheries at an “unsustainable” level, operating irregularly, In protected areas and without respecting minimum sizesas this crew member defends by phone, they have denounced NGO and released media such as the premises (Francophone) We call. Are buckets that hide their location by transferring AIS devices – Satellite positioning system – to auxiliary boats “to enter in protected areas” such as the arguin bank, which is breeding and spawning area. So the incursion alerts in vedados never jump: the trap makes the system believe that they are slaughtering in authorized areas. “If this does not stop, it will not spend much time to reach the total collapse.” Guillermo has seen them arrive, settle and start immense networks that do not discriminate against species or sizes. And, almost always, during the night. There are about 40, calculates, the Turkish ships that bell for the waters of Mauritania. To which we must add those of the army Chinese, of course; Only in the port built by the giant Poly Hong Dong in Nuadibú can be seen, from the satellite, more than 50 fisheries, covered with each other.
The Yilma Armador, the great one indicated
Both Guillermo and one of the directors consulted in the sector, also settled in Nuadibú, mainly indicate the practices of an shipowner: Yilmaz. One of his ships is the Ilhan Yilmazwith Mauritano Pavilion. It is 42 meters in length. Only in the last month they consist More than a dozen disconnections of the AIS systemas a lighthouse has been able to verify, without counting on the times that would have transferred its device to a panga or auxiliary planner. Guillermo tells it that way. “They are a very deadly fleet. They go with two support vessels with great motorization, which are the ones that use to mount the positions and enter the protected areas.” With “excessively large networks, 650 fathoms in length and 90 high”, devouring everything that is at depths below 10 meters. “Mauritania,” says the manager consulted, “has no means to fight these practices, are overwhelmed.” And Guillermo abounds that, even if he had them, part of the Control systems are bought. “They do it with complicity of high authorities, both of the government and maritime.”
Priority presence of the Coast Guard
“The majority of the owners surveyed,” says one of the local newspaper reports, “demand the priority and permanent physical presence of the Coast Guard in the sea to protect the perimeter of the Bank of Arguin and that the pirates are taken before justice.” The Mauritanian industry claims the confiscation of all its ships. Of the Ilhan Yilmazhe Turk Yilmaz, Necati Reis o Eleanora. And that their boats are confiscated by the State.
“The Moroccan sardine is migratory but every year they look less. The ronde is the same. The rest, jurel and the mackerel, are almost no longer found.” Life goes out to end powder, in flour, because these features do not even have effective freezing capacity on board. Everything is valid for the crusher.
Auxiliary ship of a Yilmaz drag.
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