The Fisheries Inspection Service of Las Palmas, integrated in the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands, has intercepted a discharge of 200 kilograms of immature longoron that did not meet the minimum conservation reference size.
The operation took place on the morning of this Thursday, February 2, in the port of Arguineguín, in the south of the island of Gran Canaria, where the discharge of the immature fish through one of the side docks of the port had been carried out.
The boat in question is a professional fishing boat of minor arts of the Canary Islands, with base port in Las Galletas (Tenerife), and that usually operates in the south of the island of Gran Canaria with the art of fishing “traíña”.
The catches were intercepted at the time when the fishermen had introduced it into a vehicle they owned and were preparing to take them out of the port, without the obligatory passage through a fishing belt.
After being weighed in the fish market and certifying that all the intercepted specimens did not comply with the minimum conservation reference size (9 cm, in accordance with European Regulation 1241/2019 on the conservation of fishery resources), these catches were confiscated and delivered to a charity, in compliance with current regulations.
In addition to the confiscation of the catches, the Fisheries Inspection Service of the Government Delegation has been able to confirm that the fishing gear used, the traíña, did not comply with the minimum mesh size authorized for this type of catch.
The Law 3/2001 of Marine Fisheries of the State, as well as the European and the autonomous Canarian regulations, do not allow the capture, possession and disembarkation of fish below the minimum size of reference for conservation purposes.