The Civil Guard has removed 4 illegal fish traps from the Lanzarote coast so far this year. Specifically, the agents located 3 of them in the municipality of Tinajo and a fourth in Puerto Calero. Throughout the province, throughout 2015, the Civil Guard has located and removed a total of 30 illegal fish traps from the coasts.
All of them "contravened" what is established in the Royal Decree that develops the Regulations of the Canary Islands Fisheries Law, which regulates this type of fishing gear, they explained. The Civil Guard emphasizes that the furtive use of pots can lead to administrative sanctions of up to 60,000 euros, "as well as other types of measures such as the retention of the vessel and the seizure of illegal gear."
Although the regulation establishes that it is mandatory for these fishing gears to be identified and marked, the Civil Guard explains that their agents generally find them with the identification numbers "erased" and without buoys to mark them. It is the Provincial Maritime Service of the Civil Guard who is in charge of fisheries control and inspection, carrying out surveillance work to "avoid clandestine use."
