The a whole lot of longueirón and coquina specimens that appeared useless just a little over a month in the past on the seashore of A Lanzada, within the municipalities of Sanxenxo and O Grove (Pontevedra), died because of the excessive temperature of the ocean water.
This is the conclusion reached by the technicians from the Technological Institute for the Control of the Marine Environment of Galicia (Intecmar), the physique in command of analyzing the samples taken after this mortality episode.
“The outcomes of the samples collected just a few weeks in the past after the looks of longueirón and coquina shells on the seashore of A Lanzada, analyzed by the Instituto Tecnolóxico para o Control do Medio Mariño de Galicia (Intecmar) conclude that no pathogenic agent has been recognized that could possibly be the reason for this mortality episode”, explains the Consellería do Mar.
Therefore, the elemental conclusion of the research is that they died attributable to the next than ordinary floor water temperature.
“Everything factors to the truth that this mortality is especially attributable to a floor water temperature larger than ordinary, round 20 levels Celsius, and that the specimens had been washed up on the seashores because of the climate and maritime situations present within the space at the moment.”
two extra episodes
After this episode of mortality that put the shellfish sector on alert, two extra circumstances have been detected.
One of them, a fortnight in the past in A Illa de Arousa (Pontevedra). There, the seashore of A Canteira was discovered lined with longueirón and clam shells. All of them, with out the bivalve inside.
“I’m 54 years previous, I’ve been seafood since I used to be 14 and I had by no means seen something like this,” Inmaculada Rodríguez, president of the Organization of Seafood and Crop Producers of the province of Pontevedra (OPP-20), advised NIUS on the time.
This week the state of affairs repeated itself, once more, on the seashore of A Lanzada. Hundreds of longueirón and kitchen shells appeared on the alternative facet of the sandbank during which that they had appeared the primary time.
The shellfish collectors guarantee that the floor water temperature presently of 12 months is often between 16 and 17 levels and, alternatively, this 12 months it has come to exceed 20 levels.
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