Ecuador: Crab collectors demand to work without the shadow of illegality

Last week, President Guillermo Lasso issued the Organic Law Decree of Economic Urgency for Risk and Disaster Management as a prevention route against the El Niño phenomenon, in which, among other measures, establishes the delivery of ownership titles for concessions of mangrove land to the country's shrimp sector. The news fell like a bucket of cold water on the crab sector, which is extremely concerned about the direct delivery of land to shrimp, while they continue waiting, in many cases, for a year, for the renewal of the concessions of hectares where they carry out crab harvesting activity. So much so that for next September 19 and with the support of the National Federation of Fishing Cooperatives of Ecuador (Fenacopec), the crabbers are preparing a mobilization in Quito to ask the Constitutional Court to archive the Decree Law. "For many years we have had problems with the shrimp sector, because they are the ones who cut down our mangroves, cover our streams with barbed ...