The project to install up to 56 floating cages for sea bass, tuna and dorada off the coast of Playa Honda will have to be subjected to a standard environmental assessment, the Canarian Government has ruled.
The Yaizatun company had applied for a simplified report, which would have taken less time than the standard procedure, but the regional government’s Department of Ecological Transition and Environment has stated that the project “could have significant effects on the environment” and must undergo the full procedure.
Yaizatun’s fish farm off the coast of Playa Quemada closed in 2022 with the loss of 50 jobs, putting an end to the fish farming industry on Lanzarote. However, the proposed new fish farming area is around a kilometre from shore, measures more than 9 kilometres in length and stretches from Matagorda to Arrecife.
The project has been opposed by the councils of San Bartolomé, Tías and Yaiza, the Cabildo, Lanzarote’s two tourist federations, the César Manrique Foundation, fishing and diving associations and Ecologists In Action.
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