The Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) of the Civil Guard reported during the past month of March different administrative infractions on the islands of La Graciosa, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura related to the environment.
In La Graciosa, the Civil Guard agents reported three infractions, two of them to the Canary Islands Waste Law, regarding the abandonment of motor vehicles on the island, specifically in the streets of the town of Caleta de Sebo, which showed clear signs of deterioration and were half scrapped. According to the Benemérita, the facts are considered a serious infraction, which may involve fines of up to 300,000 euros, cessation of activity and suspension of activity, closure of facilities, and temporary professional disqualification.
In addition, the agents consulted the corresponding database of the Provincial Traffic Headquarters, verifying how both vehicles - of the all-terrain type - lacked valid liability insurance, thus reporting the Civil Guard to their owners, a company based in Tenerife and a resident of the island. The complaints and photographic reports have been sent to the authority in charge of the corresponding sanctioning file, in this case the municipal corporation.
The third administrative infraction reported in La Graciosa was to the Legislative Decree on the Water Law, when the agents observed a sewage well outside a house in the aforementioned town coming from it and requested formal documentation from the owner of the adjoining house, who acknowledged to the agents that it was his, but that he did not have the corresponding mandatory authorization. Therefore, he was reported, sending the complaint to the Lanzarote Island Water Council for the opening of the corresponding administrative sanctioning file.
Complaint for possession of prohibited fish for commercial purposes
The last of the complaints occurred in the town of Playa Blanca, in Yaiza, where Seprona agents reported a person for possession of prohibited fish for commercial purposes (guelde- Atherina presbyter), not having any authorization and without the pertinent mandatory sanitary conditions as it does not originate from a brotherhood or market.
The reported person, a male resident of the municipality, was located by the agents in one of the streets of Playa Blanca with fish whose sale is prohibited for commercial purposes - although it can be used as fishing bait - in addition to not proving traceability and lacking any labeling, for which he was reported in accordance with the Canary Islands Fisheries Law. The agents sent the complaint, together with the photographic report, to the authority in charge of the corresponding administrative sanctioning file, the aforementioned Fisheries Department.
