Portugal and Spain grant 100 licenses for eel fishing in the Minho river – Current Affairs
Contacted by the agency, that of a note to the newsrooms with the purpose of meeting the International Permanent Commission of the River Minho (CPI and hunting), in the international section of the river M (TIRM) ), Pedro Santos Jorge said that it had been decided by the two to maintain of professional eel fishing than the international river, complying with the determinations of EU countries.
The European eel (‘Anguilla anguilla’) in the larval stage is known as juvenile eel/eel and is a protected species.
According to the ICNF, the eel is one of the stages of development of the complex and long life cycle of the European eel, which begins and ends in the Sargasso Sea, in the North Atlantic, near the American coast, where the reproduction of this eel takes place. species.
In Portugal, the capture of eel is only possible in the river, between Spain, a strong border is possible by legislation and fisheries, namely the registration of local fishermen in the captaincy of the port of Caminha.
Complementary, to subsequent promotions still dependent on community certificate, conveyed by the Institute of Conservation and Forests (ICNF), CITES administrative authorities.
At the CPIRM meeting, which took place on Tuesday, in Salvaterra do Miño, Galicia, Spain, it was also decided to maintain “an additional 15-day closed season for the use of trammel gear for shad and salmon fishing”, in following the protection measures recommended by the Migra Minho/Minho Project.
a subordinate body of the International Commission on Limits and Hydrographic Basins (CILBH) of Portugal and Spain, made up of representatives from various sectors of the administration in both countries, unanimously decided to create a new working commission to address the issue of the river area. Minho.
The captain of the Maritime Police of Caminha explained that, although “it is not a CPIRM competence to legislate on that subject, a working group was constituted and constituted that will produce a report that will be assigned to those responsible in both countries”.
“The report, with the appropriate responsibilities, will be sent to CILBH, within the scope of its powers, as entities with responsibility in this area”, he clarified.
According to Pedro Santos Jorge, the commission to integrate, still, will constitute elements of the two countries, being that on the Portuguese side it must include the five municipalities of the district of Viana do Castelo, bathed by the river Minho, the captaincy of the port of Ambiente (APA), the ICNF, among others.
The autonomous water port captain and river captain were created from the manifestations of the creation of the municipal river water port.
The “importance of controlling the discharges from the dams, of being able to carry out a flow transport, other conditions of regular preservation, as far as possible, of control on the banks of the Minho River, of preservation of its bio-fishing conditions”, was one of the themes considered at the 42nd meeting of the CPIRM.
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