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Message started by ChrisCIS on May 11th, 2016 at 10:07am

Title: Re: Cat and Carp in the Ebro
Post by geandi on Jun 6th, 2016 at 7:21pm
Latest news on the protest yesterday translated


Several thousand fishermen and hunters have concentrated this afternoon in Madrid's Plaza de Colon to demand the government removal catalog Invasive Species species like carp, rainbow trout, pike or largemouth bass, introduced in 50s in the Spanish rivers.

The protest attended by representatives of associations of fish farms, federations of hunting and fishing and entities of almost all the autonomous communities, who have read manifestos in defense of his activity and carried banners "Changing the law of invasive species", "No we kill them we enjoy "or" enough. "

Catalogue of Invasive Alien Species in force since 2013, did not initially include the aforementioned specimens, but a Supreme Court last March forced the executive to include them on the basis of scientific reports of damage caused in the Spanish rivers where they were introduced for sport fishing .

In that vein, the implementation of the judgment shall involve the prohibition of breeding and trade them for sale or to release them in rivers, and will require fishermen to be made with them can not return them, as now occurs in much of the fishing sporty.

Agusti Albiol, of the Platform in Defense of Fisheries, recalled that organizations "have already achieved the Popular Party and the Socialist Party and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces and many people affected have submitted proposition of law in They are requesting the interim suspension of the judgment "of the Supreme.

In his view, the mentioned fish species included in the catalog of invasive "carry in our waters more than two thousand years ago" and "to keep the sentence in these terms thousands of companies will have to close and thousands of workers will lose their jobs" .

According to the Platform in Defense of Fisheries "the sector will suffer losses of 3,000 million euros".

"Workers of more than a hundred farms of all Spain we are helpless against the judgment of the Supreme steelhead has no invasive potential," said Curro Villarreal, spokesman for the Organization of Producers Fish Farmers, who produce between 5,000 and 6,000 tons non-native trout a year.

José Luis Bruna, president of the Spanish Federation of Fishing and Casting argues that claim today is "the rural world against urbanite" and insists that the activity of sport fishermen "has always coexisted with the environment" and that those invasive species "are naturalized".

In the protest they chanted slogans against hard environmentalists as "environmentalists murderers" or "how many times have you seen environmentalists cleaning rivers."

Representatives of the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation (RFEC), the official body representing all Spanish hunters, have also attended the concentration to demand "categorically" the outgoing government of the next general election commitment "to respect and defense hunting, rural and fishing. "














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