The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Nation, in charge of Juan Cabandié, confirmed that the sailboat filmed while it rammed a whale in the Beagle Channel has already been identified, and announced that its crew is already being subjected to a summary.
The vessel is the “Inismara Rey 34586”, and the event happened “during the month of April” Although the video with the incident was released in the last few hours, the Environment portfolio assured in an official statement. He also added that those responsible for the ship had already been “summarized by the Ministry of Security of the Nation.”
“The fact was recorded through audiovisual material in which the boat is seen intentionally ramming the species. The sailboat could be identified from a criminal complaint filed by an NGO who demanded the clarification of what happened,” the Ministry of the Environment mentioned in turn.
In addition, the area in charge of Cabandié took the opportunity to point out the “lack of regulations in the framework of animal welfare that protect and improve the living conditions of animals.”
For this reason, he highlighted the biweekly call for a participatory table, in coordination with the Federal Environment Council and with civil society organizations and institutions committed to the subject, so that in that space “points of view and experiences that allow us to propose regulatory improvements,” the statement said.
For its part, the “Association of Officials and Lawyers for the Rights of Animals” (Afada) reported that they will file a criminal complaint against “those responsible for these events” and asked all the people who can provide truthful information about this event, to report it to the “corresponding legal authorities.”
According to Afada, the “unprecedented” event shows the “irresponsible attitude of the navigators of a sailboat who, after colliding violently with one of the cetaceans in the Argentine Sea, simply laughed and moved away from the place.”
For the organization, Ushuaia “doesn’t get out of its astonishment” after spreading images of the event “taken with a cell phone” by a person who “was traveling in a rubber boat in the direction of the whales, which were swimming very close to the city.”
@williamworman Y @carla_fulgenzi in @TapaRadio They say that the sailboat that hit the whale is the “Inismara”.
They say that among the people of the sea the video was already known and they wonder about what happens with the protocols. pic.twitter.com/kSSkniuYtB– Gonzalo B. Zamora (@gonzalobzamora) June 27, 2022
The images recorded “how the sailboat dangerously approaches the group of whales (at full speed) and irresponsibly rams themafter which laughter is heard and, quickly, the sailboat turns in the opposite direction and moves away,” adds the NGO.
“It is important to file a complaint in the event that the whale may appear stranded or, through the scientific institutions that monitor cetaceans in the area, and the damage suffered by the animal can be detected and proven,” he mentioned. the organization.
“We need them to send all possible information, such as the details of the sailboat, witnesses who photographed or recorded the event, as well as any other relevant data to carry out the corresponding legal actions,” concluded Afada.
Judicial sources confirmed to Télam that the complaint was filed this morning and that it is processed before the Federal Court of Ushuaia by Judge Federico Calvete, with the intervention of the prosecutor Juan Soria.
