Investigate a fisherman who filmed himself with 15 surubíes

It went viral in recent days image of a fisherman, Originally from Entre Rios, posing next to 15 specimens of surubíes of different sizes. At first, the doubts were in relation to the place where the event took place, which ended up moving so much Corrientes Natural Resources as the Directorate of Entre Ríos Natural Resources Inspectionwho collected the information for investigate the case. As detailed by the Entre Ríos portal El Once, the recording of the video would have been made in Entre Ríos territory and it took place during the past long weekend. The data was confirmed by sport fishermen from the area who communicated to criticize and denounce the attitude of the subject that appears in the video and his group of friends, due to the predation of surubíes. “In the video you can see about fifteen, but we know that they caught around 30”said the fisherman, who said that “some photos can be seen on social networks.”

The director of Natural Resources of the province of Corrientes, Agustín Portela, assured that the case was presented to the environmental prosecutor’s office of Mercedes where the corresponding investigation is carried out. Meanwhile, his counterpart from the Entre Ríos Ministry of Production Inspection entity, Juan Manzur, expressed that “the reprehensible act is the practice that borders on depredation because sport fishing in Entre Ríos must be returned in the Paraná and Uruguay rivers“, pointing out that the fisherman, like his companions, “would be violating a provincial violation.”

“The Environmental Prosecutor of Mercedes initiated an investigation to verify whether the event occurred in Corrientes or not, but in the event that there may be a possibility that it was in the province of Entre Ríos, we will initiate the pertinent measures to penalize this type of activity,” Manzur said, referring to this fact that Supposedly, it happened in La Cuevas (Diamond department). “The video is the only objective evidence that we have, where only one person is shown with the surubí specimens, but it must be verified if that person was the one who caught them or not and in what capacity,” he explained, mentioning that “The ex officio investigation is underway to establish if the people who appear in the video are the ones who carried out the depredation and if there is a record and a record of fines in which they appear.” As he reported, the accused fisherman analyzed whether or not to discharge in the journalistic means, or would wait directly for the summons of justice.
the uThe only type of sport fishing allowed in Entre Ríos, after three years of historic drought, it is only with return, Therefore, these fishermen would be in violation of the provincial fishing law, in the event that it has been in this province that has been working as an example in the care of the fish resource. This The same regulation covers fishing contests, which are enabled only for practice with return.

For his part, the provincial director of Natural Resources of the province, Mariano Farall, establishes that the portfolio under his charge generates regulations in accordance with the studies and evaluations of the fish resource in the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. “Sport fishing is with immediate return of all specimens and we are extending that provision in the province.” Let us remember that very recently, this entity carried out a survey of the fish resource of the Paraná River, to improve knowledge of the fishing fauna of that basin, near Victoria, within the framework of the National Project for the Biological and Fishing Evaluation of Species of Sporting Interest. and Commercial (Ebipes), being Entre Ríos the only province that established commercial extraction quotas.