Aug 19 - GONHS Repeats Concerns Over Illegal Fishing
The Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society (GONHS) has written to the Minister for the Environment and Climate Change (copied to the Commissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police) to ask why the fishing vessel ‘Virgen Carmen Primero’, from the Puerto de la Atunara in La Linea, is “allowed to fish with nets in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters close to Eastern Beach on a daily basis.”
GONHS says that the vessel's track, which can be followed on http://www.marinetraffic.com/ shows repeated forays from its home port into Gibraltar waters. The group says that the vessel can also be seen by beachgoers and surely by RGP and DECC vessels tasked with patrolling the area.
GONHS has asked the Minister whether there is any reason as to why this vessel “appears to be immune from being stopped and arrested or reported for process” for breaching Section 10 (1) (ba) of the Nature Protection Act 1991.
GONHS calls on both authorities to enforce the law of Gibraltar at all times.
Pic below: recent movements of the 'Virgen Carmen Primero' (from Marine Traffic)
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