Local Police Xàbia has launched a year special campaign of surveillance to monitor the extraction of sea urchins (bogamarins) is done so under the rules that ensures the recovery of this echinoderm, fleeced for years mass arrests.
Earlier this month the ban authorizing collection to the 28 February, provided it is done with traditional arts, with a minimum size and abide by a maximum quota of two dozen per person opened.
That is why the agents of the rural patrol of the police will intensify the control in the creeks during these months of calm sea, to avoid above all the illegal extraction through the practice of diving, either in apnea or with bottles. In addition to the surveillance on the coast, the destination of these hedgehogs will be monitored.
In this sense, hospitality is asked for responsibility, reminding them that they should acquire them in the auctions and professional auctions and citizen collaboration to avoid this type of illegal practices that, for personal gain, could end up with this highly appreciated native shellfish.
Bogamarins fishing is regulated from 2005 by decree 50 / 2005 of the Generalitat, a rule that imposes fines of more than 600 euros to offenders and that, in case of recidivism, empowers agents to confiscate the fishing gear used for illegal extraction.
Local Police seized 300 illegally extracted copies
A few weeks ago, the Police of Xàbia surprised divers who illegally extracted sea urchins from the Cala de la BarracaIn the area of Portitxol. A poachers were seized average higher than 300 pieces each which, after being told to instruct necessary for the complaint proceedings were immediately returned to the sea one by one and separately with the hope to survive.
