Prevent Illegal Marketing 15 Tons Of White Guano

Date: 2012/08/31

Thanks to a joint operation between the staff of the Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) of Tarapacá, Ministerial Regional Secretariat of Mining, Patache Port Captain and Port Crimes Squad (Briderdepo) of the Investigative Police (PDI), was achieved prevent illegal marketing of 15,000 kilos of white guano.

The quoted fifteen tons of fertilizer, which is not authorized for removal in the region, was discovered in 350 bags of 45 kilos each, on islets in Punta Patillos sectors.

After the operation, was arrested a person who was brought before the public prosecutor on charges of violation of the Code of mining and the Hunting Act. Similarly, all the implements were seized for the extraction and transportation of natural fertilizer, which was already ready to start his landing and subsequent illegal marketing.

Both the strength of the Port of Patache, as the Agriculture and Livestock Service, Mining SEREMI Crimes Squad and the Port Police Department, took weeks compiling background Patillos sector, with the aim of detecting the people who illegally extract this fertilizer.

Hannibal Ariztía, SAG's national director, said that this is the procedure most important white guano materialized in recent months, "the result of a joint effort with all agencies involved in this matter.

Continue making this strict vigilance and through all possible means to prevent the illegal exploitation of guano which are protected by law. "

In the same vein, Fernando Chiffelle, director of SAG Tarapacá, said "that the Hunting Act No. 19473 of the Ministry of Agriculture prohibits at all times, lift nests, burrows destroy, collect eggs and young, so to make the extraction illegal white guano is seriously affecting the balance of coastal bird populations including the Humboldt penguin, pelican, booby guanay, lile and various species of gulls and terns. The sites identified illegal extraction of the product are Patillo Punta, Punta Patache Pisagua, Caleta Buena and Punta Blanca, among others. "

Source: Diario 21