VALVERDE (EL HIERRO), Oct. 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesperson for the Nuestra Señora de Los Reyes Fishermen’s Guild, Fernando Gutiérrez, warned this Wednesday of the “third world” image that occurs in the port of La Restinga in the face of the “avalanche” of piled-up cayucos that arrive incessantly from the last summer.
Gutiérrez criticizes in a note that they “attempt to give a solution” to this accumulation “with the same means as when one came every 6 months” and now there is an “unbreathable bad smell of pestilence and gasoline” in the port area.
Along these lines, he believes that it is a “real shame” that this is happening on an island in the European Union to which more than 6,000 people have arrived so far this year and that “not even the most sufficient means have yet been put in place.” minimum, in terms of the management of the boats”.
Thus, he recognizes that there is “discontent” in the group of fishermen because they are “overwhelmed” by a situation that keeps the port “half-collapsed”, both in its fishing dock and in the surrounding area.
“Not only do cayucos accumulate in the bay, but the port roads are occupied with them, for not giving them a corresponding outlet today,” he points out.
Gutiérrez also indicates that the canoes are destroyed “in an inappropriate place”, in the port itself and near the fishing market, where the boats operate, with diving tourists who go out to sea every day.
“And the most serious thing, in addition to the general pollution of the environment, and the nauseating smell, is also the accumulation of more than 10,000 liters of gasoline within the esplanade of the Restinga dock, which represents a maximum danger, which in In the event of an accident, the consequences could be catastrophic with an explosion of this product within the port itself,” he warns.
The fishermen’s spokesperson makes it clear that they have “nothing against anyone” but warns that “it seems” that they are waiting “for a misfortune to happen, and then look for the corresponding solution.”
For this reason, the question is asked “where is the State Government” to give an answer because it is already “quite late” and the situation “becomes more unsustainable and unbearable every day”, with local entities seeing their resources “decimated”.
