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Greenpeace denounces: 'One week after the biggest salmon escape of the decade they find less than 1%'
CHILE
Monday, July 06, 2020, 02:10 (GMT + 9)
The legal action that Greenpeace will take is to become part of the sanctioning process initiated by the SMA, also representing local organizations, with which it seeks to provide information so that the company is sanctioned with the maximum rigor contemplated by the law, which is the loss of the concession.
Last week, in the Reloncaví Sound, in the Los Lagos region, there was a massive escape of salmon from the "Caicura" farming center that is operated by the company Salmones Blumar S.A. that is dedicated to aquaculture in general, raising, production and cultivation of salmonids.
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Mauricio Ceballos, Greenpeace spokesperson emphasized that “within a week of this leak, which is the largest in the decade, Sernapesca finds less than 1% of the escaped salmon. This speaks for itself, this disaster is the drop that overflowed the glass of negligence in this industry, remember the 2018 escape of 700,000 salmon a few kilometers from this new leak that finally came to nothing. "
The legal action that Greenpeace will take is to become part of the sanctioning process initiated by the SMA, also representing local organizations, with which it seeks to provide information so that the company is sanctioned with the maximum rigor that the law that is the loss of the RCA contemplates. and the concession. "This within the period of 30 days that Sernapesca has to control the capture of 10% of the salmon, which is what the law requires to presume environmental damage. We have been 6 days days and they have only found less than 1%," he added.
The questioning is greater, because it is not the first time that accidents of this type have happened. "The fact is that a company like Blumar, which has starred in a gigantic salmon escape, claims that they have the best anchoring engineering standards to function indicates that it is not the weather, but salmon farming itself, which is not it is suitable to operate even under conditions that are not very different from those that occur year by year in the area, ”Ceballos explained.
For its part, Sernapesca verified that to date 8,476 fish have been recaptured, Sernapesca said on Wednesday, July 1.
Likewise, the affected communities in the area also demanded, through a public declaration, the direct presence of the community in the inspection of the quantity of salmon that are recaptured in the coming days.
“The Blumar company has received concessions and has more requests to settle, along with other companies, within the Kawésqar National Park and Reserve in Magallanes, which has been allowed by the authorities, based on a rude interpretation of the legislation. , are opening the doors so that an escape of about 1,000,000 salmon can be repeated at more points on the coast of Patagonia, where the climatic conditions are much more difficult, and the possibility of more escapes is greater. We will not allow it, ”said the Greenpeace spokesperson.
Source: El Mostrador
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