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“Beyond the limits”: Marco Volpi and his son fined 8 thousand euros. “Betrayed by enthusiasm. I apologize, I was wrong and I will pay ”
LIVORNO. According to the Coast Guard, he violated the rules of amateur sport fishing, returning to port with 48 kilos of sea bream when the limit, per person, is five per day. Ten in this case, since he was on board with his son. Fine of four thousand euros by the port office for the 51-year-old livorno Marco Volpi, 33 times world champion in sport fishing and a reference point for the agonists of the category, who consider him a true legend. For both, a total fine of eight thousand euros was imposed.
The military control began last Friday, around 9 pm, when Volpi was returning to port after a day at sea. They knew they were going without fail, obviously, because they were waiting for him at the dock. Finding out that on the boat, instead of a maximum of ten kilos of sea bream, he had 48, with a potential value of more than a thousand euros. “For a few days the men of the naval team had been watching the two – they write from the Tuscan maritime direction, led by Rear Admiral Giuseppe Tarzia – and so when they returned with their boat after an angling trip off the southern coast of Livorno, they found the soldiers waiting for them who found the large amount of illegal fish on board. ‘
According to what he learned, Volpi would have gone to the shoals of Vada, and then returned to port with 38 kilos of sea bream above the maximum daily amount for amateur sport fishing. In fact, the regulations establish that “the sport and recreational fisherman can reach a maximum daily catch of five kilograms in total, except in the case of a single fish that weighs more than one person.” In this case, however, the fish were “18-20” – reconstructs the athlete – and therefore it was not a single prey that exceeded the quantity. «First of all I want to apologize to everyone – says the world champion reached by Tyrrhenian – because I got involved in the situation and I was wrong.
We set out, along with many other boats, starting at six in the morning. And we hadn’t caught anything until one. This is a period where the big sea breams eat and at a certain point they surfaced 18-20 of about three kilos each and we fell in love, because it certainly isn’t something that always happens. However, it is not forbidden to fish, nor to be under measure, while the capture was made with ecological tools, or two rods with hooks. They confiscated those, as well as two reels, with which I was fishing with my son. Mine is a mistake dictated by enthusiasm and if I am wrong I will pay the fine of the port captain. However, I want to emphasize that we could go fishing, that was not the prohibited aspect.
“No infringement concerning the particular restrictions currently linked to the” red zone “has been contested at the moment – they always write from the Tuscan maritime direction – precisely because, being a registered athlete of high level, he justified his departures with the need to a pre-training – competition “. Currently, among other things, the port captaincy follows ministerial instructions according to which it is possible to go fishing even with the current restrictions imposed by the Government, which is why Volpi fully complied with the anti-covid regulations. For him, therefore, there is no fine of 533 euros. There are four thousand euros linked to the surplus of 38 kilos of sea bream, the same amount for the son of the world champion. –
