In a joint operation with Navy personnel and an inspection team of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA), held this week in Hately Bay, Wollaston archipelago, near Cape Horn, it was determined that part of the material installed in the sector corresponded to crabbing nets.
This fishing gear is forbidden due to the low selectivity in the species that it captures due to the physical damage caused to specimens during their disentanglement and also because of its interference with birds and marine mammals that are commonly trapped in it.
In this context, both entities managed to lift three fishing lines equivalent to almost 1,000 linear metres of this rig, which were set between 3 and 5 nautical miles from the coast, to a depth of 45 to 60 metres.
After arduous work implied in turning these lines and the subsequent disentanglement of the trapped specimens, more than 60 king crabs were released for their reinsertion into the interior of Hately Bay.
SERNAPESCA regional director in Magallanes, Patricio Díaz, reported that after a series of complaints about the massive use of crabbing nets in the area, both entities "will continue with the work of fisheries control in the sector in order to discourage this bad practice rooted in some fishing agents, which seriously damages the environment and the sustainability of the fishing activity."
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