State President, Salvador Illa, follows remotely from Mexico the crisis caused by an outbreak of swine fever found in the Collserola mountain range, in Barcelona. On Tuesday, he appeared before the media to explain the details of the administration, and after meeting with the mayors of the affected region, he called for the need to reduce wild boar numbers throughout Catalonia. He added: “We must eliminate wild boars, there are too many of them.”
“The population must be reduced, and this mission must be intensified,” Illa stressed in a media speech after visiting the Josep María Morea y Romani Library at the University of Guadalajara, which houses the second largest collection in the world outside Catalonia. Executive sources insist that the crisis is under control and are not currently considering disrupting the trip, which ends next Thursday.
However, Illa stressed that this monitoring must be “carried out with respect and following organized procedures,” a call to avoid abuses and indiscriminate fishing. In fact, it worked The Military Emergency Unit (UME) in the Collserola region, where nine cases of swine fever have been reported, is monitoring residents’ hunting. now, president He calls for this measure to be expanded to include the rest of the region, and confirmed that they have already contacted fishermen’s associations to do so.
The President also positively praised China and South Korea’s acceptance of the clarifications of the Government and the Ministry of Agriculture to reduce the veto power on exports only for pork products coming from Barcelona Province. This allows hatcheries in the rest of the Catalan provinces to continue operating normally.
On the other hand, the Ministry also announced that the UK will also retain imports of Spanish pork, despite the objection to cuts falling within a 20-kilometre radius of the place where the plague outbreak was declared.