Since last April, the Labor Inspection has had officials supervising the entire occupational risk protection and prevention operation of Aquanaria, the peninsular captive fishing company that operates in the south of Gran Canaria and, specifically, in Castillo. del Romeral. The company has received support in the form of silence from the gastronomic critics of Las Palmas, but the residents and city council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana have begun to take measures. All this is because the company, which would control the business without the zeal it should have, has received a complaint from a worker With a video, he has put Aquanaria on the spot, stating that it is a "dirty, inadequate, unmaintained and uncovered space as it is continually heated." and "that there is no hyperbaric chamber available to employees", that is, divers. Detail: it is common, according to the complaint, for there to be seagulls inside the cells of captive fish.
Canarias 7 has revealed that the Spanish company "also does not adequately treat the organic waste from the pontoon of that same Castillo del Romeral center" and that an employee who has taken the matter to Labor states that "to date there is no management company for this waste, with the danger that this entails for people's health as it is a food company." Another alleged irregularity is that "the administration of antibiotics to the fish does not comply with the proper protocol, because it is not properly ordered by a veterinarian." Canarias 7 points out that "this newspaper wanted to obtain the company's version, but they opted for caution since they are not aware of the complaint. What's more, they have not even been notified."
The complaint before the Labor Inspection of Las Palmas has arisen from a complaint filed by a former worker against Aquanaria according to Canarias 7 "for alleged non-compliance, both in terms of labor rights, which includes a salary claim, and cleaning of the facilities" and adds the newspaper that "among the irregularities reported to the agency dependent on the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy is the lack of a bathroom on the boats, which forces the workers, always according to the complaint, to relieve themselves over the side of the boats." boats". The seagulls get trapped in the cages of Castillo del Romeral and there is no waste management company.
According to Canarias 7, the complaint states that "the marine cages are not properly cleaned, that the seagulls that are trapped inside the cages are left to die and that the boats are piloted" and that, in quotes from the complaining employee's words, "by workers that do not meet the appropriate qualification requirements and are occupied daily by more employees than those authorized according to the type of vessel.
