On Thursday afternoon, dozens of fishermen demonstrated outside the Legislative Assembly against project 19.838 or “Law of sustainable use of shrimp, generation of employment and fight against poverty.”
According to the protesters, this promotes trawling that would affect the employment and economic share of artisanal fishers, as well as marine ecosystems.
The objective is to tell the Government to ban this project in the Legislative Assembly because it is harmful to artisanal fishers and marine ecosystems,”
said William Carrión, part of the association of fishermen that was demonstrating.
According to Carrión, INCOPESCA has ignored the recommendations made by the biologists of the same institution and want to continue with the project.
This group of people had the support of the Marviva Foundation, who assured that the Government is promoting again the granting of licenses for the practice of trawling, despite a sentence of the Constitutional Chamber of 2013.
The judgment of that Chamber ordered INCOPESCA not to issue new licenses for this technique, nor to renew existing licenses.