On Monday, President Luis Guillermo Solís celebrated the first electric hydrogen bus in the country and, in addition, the PAC fraction managed to approve the Law of Incentives and Promotion for Electric Transportation in the first reading.
However, the government supports shrimp trawling, which seems to be a contradiction due to the environmental damage that this activity entails.
But from Zapote they say that there are no inconsistencies and continue to defend such fishing activity.
We believe that the government is being consistent in the defense of the resources and in the protection of human beings who are linked to this activity,”
said Mauricio Herrera, Minister of Communication.
The government insists that it is delivering new licenses and that those who obtain them must adapt to the 24 changes in the fishing gear and the regulations, which, according to them, were imposed to reduce the impact of this activity.
Solís has insisted that they defend the jobs related to this activity. But in 2015 the School of Economics of the National University (UNA), in a socioeconomic study of the trawl sector in the Central Pacific, concluded that the activity only generates 590 direct jobs, but more than 80% have poor quality.
Additionally, in 2013 the Constitutional Chamber declared this practice as unconstitutional for the violation of the right to a healthy and ecologically balanced environment. Still, the government won’t back down.