More than 80 kilos of sea cucumbers that have been illegally caught within the waters of the capital of Cadiz have been seized. The Civil Guard has intercepted a leisure boat skippered by an individual who was stunned transporting 5 buckets of about 20 kilos every and loaded with this specimen.
The diver, who was doing underwater fishing, fled the place to keep away from police motion, being positioned and rescued hours later, because of the help of the Salvamar and National Police helicopter, hidden among the many rocks close to the coast.
The operation befell on the afternoon of May 31, round 3:30 p.m., when the civil guards of the Provincial Maritime Service have been finishing up duties typical of the service and noticed a leisure boat that was finishing up some unusual maneuvers to be able to shortly transfer away from the police presence. Given these info, the civil guards adopted the route that might cause them to intercept mentioned vessel, observing a buoy alongside the best way that indicated the presence of a diver underwater.
After intercepting the leisure boat, the brokers stunned the skipper and solely occupant transporting the buckets of sea cucumbers. In addition, throughout the inspection and seizure of the specimens, the civil guards corroborate that the presence of the diver close to the buoy was his associate who was doing underwater fishing to seize this species that had been discovered. intervened.
After finishing the inspection and confirming the presence of the diver underwater, the skipper was requested to go and decide up his buddy on the place the place the buoy was positioned.
A helicopter to seek out an escaped diver
Persons on the scene to test the situation of the diver and the identification, they noticed that the buoy was adrift because the diver himself had reduce the rope that anchored it to forestall it from being positioned.
Due to those occasions, the help of Salvamar was requested with the presence of a ship and a helicopter, in addition to the National Police with the intention of finding the diver from any level and as quickly as potential. The search system lasted a number of hours, the National Police ruling out that the diver had reached land and being positioned by the Salvamar helicopter hidden among the many rocks with the neoprene swimsuit and the oxygen cylinder.
After verifying that it was in good situation and that its solely intention was to evade police motion, the civil guards of the Provincial Maritime Service beached the auxiliary boat within the space the place the diver was hiding for his rescue.
As a results of this motion, roughly 80 kilos of sea cucumbers have been intervened, which have been returned to their pure surroundings and the corresponding complaints have been filed for unlawful shellfishing and hindering the inspection, addressed to the Territorial Delegation of Agriculture , Fisheries, Water and Rural Development in Cádiz.
Coveted in Asian eating places
Finally, it ought to be famous that the proliferation within the seize of this species is as a result of excessive demand of retailers and eating places run by residents of Asian origin, making it a extremely valued species for its aphrodisiac and therapeutic properties. All of this causes a rise in poaching and unlawful trafficking overseas, placing its sustainability within the marine ecosystem in danger.
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