One thousand euros in fines each. This is the sanction incurred by the three men surprised by the men of the Forestry Corps of Trinità D'Agultu illegally fishing for sea urchins on the coast.
The three, at the sight of the foresters, tried to hide among the vegetation and hide what was caught, but in vain.
4000 urchins were thus seized from the offenders, immediately thrown into the sea because they are still alive, as well as a jar of ready-made sea urchin pulp and diving equipment, ie cylinders, tiles and collection hooks.
"The coastal departments and the patrol boats of the naval bases of the Forestry Corps and environmental surveillance - explains an official note - are constantly engaged in the prevention of poaching in general and in particular the illegal collection of the precious sea urchin, whose depletion of resource has become worrying.
Echinoderma is, in fact, a very important element for the ecology of the marine food chain, being the basis for the nourishment of numerous and important fish species and therefore, even more so, deserving of protection and protection ".
(Unioneonline / lf)
