AFFECTING THE PINK CONCH IN QUINTANA ROO

Loopholes affect queen conch population in Quintana Roo, despite 5-year ban


Chetumal. - The Chinchorro Bank authorities and the Attorney General's Office (PGR), will seek legal action to penalize the illegal extraction of the snail in the southern state because there are loopholes that have allowed poachers obtain their freedom, even when they are detained in closed marine animals.

In this regard the director of the reserve bank dinghy Maria del Carmen Garcia Rivas, confirmed the reason for his trip to Mexico City is to hold a meeting with officials from the PGR, to work and achieve legal action and sanction those who violate the ban the snail, and so far those detained have achieved their freedom without major problems.

"We will have a meeting with officials of the PGR and some lawyers are advising us. We are working to build or strengthen the law regarding the ban on conch, is important because recently there have been two arrests and unfortunately people were released because they ruled that this as an offense in white, which is why it is After working with people who take the snail and receive the punishment related to it, "he said. He said that these days there is concern about the significant decrease in relation to the population of queen conch, which in the past five years has been weakened considerably.

"What we want is that also the snail population is restored, as it is at very low levels, researchers have had record low densities, few copulations, few snail eggs, and that is leading us to develop more practical tools for avoid this. Something that is important is not to use it and to respect the five-year ban was proposed by fishermen.

"Maria del Carmen Garcia Rivas recalled that four years was considered in Article 420 of the penal code, the species of lobster and abalone, and judges have ruled as a crime target species that are not considered within these two species, one for the loopholes that have allowed poachers to obtain their freedom even if they are arrested with molluscum. (File Source. Quintana Roo)

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