The Gijón Civil Guard a total of 424 kilos of hake from Lastres and whose final destination era Galicia. At the end of last week, the agents learned of the existence of a fisherman who used to transport hake from the port of Lastres to the port of Avilés, where, in turn, it was transferred to other trucks to transport it to Galicia. All of it without the documentation that will prove its traceability.
From there, it was decided to establish a device set among members of the Civil Guard of the Gijón Command and Fisheries Inspectors dependent on the General Directorate of Maritime Fisheries of the Principality for surprise the suspect with the aforementioned merchandise.
On the afternoon of the 15th, they observed how a truck that coincided with the suspect’s was circulating on the Cantabrian highway in the direction of Avilés, proceeding to inspect it in the vicinity of the Avilesina rula. After identification, it was found that the transported fish and documentation did not match. According to the guide, the merchandise transported was 25 kilos of conger eel, seven of blue whiting, 150 of bertorella and 120 of hake, only the conger and blue whiting coinciding. The 150 kilos of bertorella was not such, but hake, and the weight of royal hake was not 120 kilos but 424.
Finally, 304 kilos of hake were seized (fish not covered in the guide) that were sealed and deposited in the Rula de Avilés for later delivery to the Food Bank of Asturias and the preparation of a complaint for a infringement to Law 2/1993 of October 29 on Maritime Fishing in Inland Waters and Use of Marine Resources, by the transportation of marine species without be in possession of the documentation corresponding that certifies the origin, destination and weight of the same.
The fish came from Puerto de Lastres and its final destination was the Port of Vigo (Pontevedra) for sale. He end of this practice of not identifying the hake as such and putting it in the circulation guide with the name of another species, it is the do not consume the assigned quota to the boat and the owner during the fishing season for this species and thus to be able to fish more of what is actually assigned.
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