Blow on the Guadalquivir River to the Anguilla Platforms


Blow on the Guadalquivir River to the Anguilla Platforms

From the early hours of the morning an operation is being carried out at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river against the illegal eel platforms

In the operation called “AVE FÉNIX”, led by the Civil Guard, more than 120 agents from different State and Autonomous Administrations are involved, as well as 15 vessels, a helicopter, unmanned aircraft and land means

The operation “FÉNIX” is intended to eradicate an activity that represents a serious threat to life at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River, from the point of view of biodiversity, lawful and regulated fishing, traffic and safety of navigation and drug traffic

From the first hours of today, February 5, 2020, an important operation called “Ave Fénix” is being carried out that intends to eradicate the activity of the illegal eel platforms that have been installed at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river, and that represents a serious threat, from the point of view of biodiversity, lawful and regulated fishing, traffic and safety of navigation and drug trafficking. In the operation called “AVE FÉNIX”, led by the Civil Guard, more than 120 agents from different State and Autonomous Administrations are involved, as well as 15 vessels, a helicopter, unmanned aircraft and land means.
The activity of these angulero artifacts is carried out in a fishing reserve, which is a very sensitive biological and ecological zone, called the breeding and fattening area of ​​the Lower Guadalquivir. Angula fishing is totally prohibited in the rivers and coastal waters of Andalusia, as an exceptional measure for the recovery of European eel.
Those who practice this commercial activity, which is not recreational or cultural or subsistence, use 1mm mesh light networks, so all those who live with the angle fall with this fishing art, which has a special destructive efficiency for life in rivers. In addition, their work is carried out regardless of any current legislation, acting with total impunity for any administrative sanction or civil liability that their devices may cause, since all their assets and wealth is in the name of third parties.
The extermination fishing they carry out affects the aquatic macrofauna of the area, which is composed of at least 134 species, which are of gastronomic interest and therefore marketable, when they reach legal stature. Therefore, their illegal activity has a negative impact on sea workers, who do their hard work respecting the laws and paying their taxes. But in addition, all these species give life and maintain a unique ecosystem in the Doñana National Park, source of life and wealth for the entire area.
The presence in the river of these artifacts represents a danger to maritime safety and hinders navigation, in a narrow river, with little draft and sinuous stroke, sometimes occupying the navigation channel to or from Seville, without counting on the risk they represent for the FCSE, and even the drug traffickers themselves, in high-speed night chases while the security forces fighting the drug trafficking phenomenon develop in the Guadalquivir river.

For all these reasons, from the beginning of February 5, 105 civil guards, 15 Fisheries Inspection officials of the Junta de Andalucía and 3 officials of the Maritime Captaincy of Seville, are working with all the material means that the Administration has for achieve the objectives that had been set, being of special interest and relevance the collaboration that are being provided by personalities of the University such as Carlos Fernández, who has been studying how marine life is weakening at the mouth of the Guadalquivir, or Ángel León , the Chef of the sea, who makes a firm commitment in his kitchens for a work system that respects the environment, as the only way to maintain a legacy that we are slowly destroying.

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