the Attorney Federal protection to the environment (Profepa) filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) for the death of four California sea lions, which were caught in a fishing net type chinchorro in the Area Natural protected Park area marine archipelago national of Holy Spirit, in La Paz.
In a statement, the Profepa reported carrying out a night operation with the support of the Secretary of Navy and the citizens observer network peace in the archipelago national park of Holy Spirit, where he found fishing gear and four dead sea lions.
The four sea lions, species subject to special protection in accordance with the Mexican official standard NOM-059-Semarnat-2010, were transferred the Department academic of animal husbandry of the Autonomous University of Baja California, for necropsy corresponding.
Lee: The vaquita and 370 species at risk, with less budget for protection in 2019 the results of the post-mortem examinations carried out by the University set liquid in upper respiratory tract, bronchial, and parenchymal pulmonary, abundant liquid foam in tracheo-bronchial tree, areas of infarction in lung lobes and concludes with a presumptive diagnosis of death “asphyxia by submersion”.
Therefore, Profepa complaint made to the FGR for the deaths of four California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), based on article 420 fraction I, V of the Federal Penal Code, which establishes: penalty of one to nine years in prison shall be imposed and by the equivalent of 300 to 3 thousand days fine, who unlawfully capture, damage or deprived of any copy of turtle and marine mammal life or collect or store in any way their products or by-products.
In addition, damage any copy of wild, terrestrial or aquatic flora or fauna species identified in the above fraction. Wild, terrestrial or aquatic in veda, flora or fauna species considered endemic, threatened, in danger of extinction, subject to special protection, or regulated by any international treaty of which Mexico is a party.
Applies an additional penalty up to three years in prison and up to a thousand days fine extra, when the acts described in this article are made in or affect a protected natural area, or when they are made for commercial purposes.
Profepa continue tours of surveillance, in order to address the problem of illegal fishing within the mentioned National Park, in the areas where the management program restrict fishing gear that put at risk the life of listed wildlife species in the NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010.
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