The Civil Guard reported yesterday that 35 kilos of limpets were intervened in the Tenerife municipality of La Victoria de Acentejo that they were inside a vehicle and that they lacked any document indicating their traceability and phytosanitary control.
The lack of control can entail a serious health risk, indicated in a statement in which the Armed Institute added that the limpets were in the trunk of a vehicle he was driving. a “recidivist” mansince he had previously been denounced for similar events.
The intervention was carried out by agents of the rural patrol of the Civil Guard of the Puerto de la Cruz company who carried out a checkpoint of vehicles and people in the area of Calle Antigua, in the municipality of Victoria de Acentejo.
The agents detected a vehicle driven by a man who was very nervous when the agents stopped him, for which a superficial search of the vehicle was carried out, in whose trunk a sack full of black macaws was found.
When asked about the origin of the limpet specimens, he could not indicate it, nor could he provide any documentation, the statement added.
The agents filed a complaint for infringement of the Canary Islands fishing law.
