Fisheries Inspection Agents are public employees whose functions are essential for society. These are:
-Formulate complaints and draw up the corresponding reports of infringement as appropriate.
- Investigate illegal practices within the scope of their functions.
-Transfer those complaints that they receive or are made by fishermen's associations and federations and individuals, carrying out the appropriate checks.
- Inform and guide fishermen and citizens in general in relation to current fishing regulations.
-Any others that are determined in relation to competences in matters of fishing, shellfish harvesting, aquaculture, management of the fishing sector and marketing.
This group, despite its importance to the Canary Islands, is unfairly forgotten by the Administration, since, among other things, it lacks a regulation on uniforms. If they don't want to spend years with the same uniform (including shoes), they have to fend for themselves and buy them on their own. Sometimes fittings are carried out, but time passes and that work clothing does not arrive.
Likewise, in the vehicle fleet of these officials we find vehicles that are more than twenty years old and without air conditioning. It must be harmful to health to drive in those cars in times of heat, haze and with a mask.
On the other hand, if we look at group 6 of the Ministry of Health's vaccination strategy, we realize that these officials do not appear. As if they didn't exist.
It is time to recognize the work of the Fisheries Inspection Agents Corps as it deserves.
Jesús Manuel Díaz Lorente. CSIF Delegate
