Politicians, professors and experts form this body, which will meet every fortnight and whose spokesperson will be the head of Fisheries of the Community, Emilio María Dolores
Today the new Mar Menor Monitoring Committee will take its first steps, in charge of supervising the evolution of the state of the lagoon and periodically informing society about it. The inaugural meeting of this new body, made up of politicians, technicians and experts from the universities of Murcia and the Polytechnic of Cartagena, will take place this afternoon at the San Esteban Palace, under the chairmanship of the head of the autonomous Executive, Fernando López Miras .
The constitution of this committee, similar to the one created to monitor the Covid pandemic, was a commitment made by the president of the Community on February 11 during the last visit to the Region of the Minister for Ecological Transition, Theresa Rivera.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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President
Fernando Lopez Miras. -
Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and the Environment
Director, Antonio Luengo; general director of the Mar Menor, Miriam Pérez Albaladejo; CEO of Agua, José Sandoval; General Director of the Natural Environment, Fulgencio Perona, and General Director of the Environment, Francisco Marín Arnaldos. -
experts
Ángel Pérez Ruzafa, Professor of Ecology at the University of Murcia (UMU); Francisco Javier Gilabert Cervera, Professor of Ecology at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT); José Luis García Arostegui, senior scientist at the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (Murcia office) and associate professor of Hydrology at the University of Murcia, and Alejandro Pérez Pastor, professor of Agricultural Engineering at the UPCT. -
technicians
Ángel Emilio María Dolores, head of the Fisheries Service, who will act as spokesperson for the Mar Menor monitoring committee; Juan Faustino Martínez, head of the Red Natura 2000 Conservation Service, and Manuel Erena Arrabal, responsible for the geographic information and remote sensing system of the Murcian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research and Development (Imida).
One of its main tasks will be “permanently reporting to society” on the state of the Mar Menor, as well as the measures and actions underway, according to the Ministry of Water and Agriculture.
Of the thirteen members of this body, six are part of the regional government, four are scientists and three are technicians.
The committee will be chaired by López Miras, and the function of spokesperson will be exercised by Emilio María Dolores, doctor in Veterinary Medicine and head of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water.
The position is not new for Emilio María Dolores, who last month became the spokesperson for the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Mar Menor, replacing the Professor of Ecology at the University of Murcia, Ángel Pérez Ruzafa, who requested his relief to focus on their academic and research work. María Dolores is also an associate professor at the Polytechnic of Cartagena and knows the Mar Menor in detail, since he has been monitoring the coastal lagoon for more than six years. As spokesperson, he is expected to provide a more technical approach, but also an educational one, on the situation of the lagoon.
The Ministry maintains that “the Community has always worked to offer as much information as possible on the protection and recovery of the Mar Menor, monthly with the Inter-administrative Coordination Forum or with the Canal Mar Menor website. And now it intends to reinforce the informative work with this new body».
Thirteen members
The meetings to analyze the situation of the Mar Menor and report on its status will take place every fifteen days, according to sources from the autonomous Executive.
The committee will have thirteen members, six belonging to the regional government, including the president, the Minister of Agriculture and four general directors, four scientists (two from each of the public universities in the Region) and three technicians. Among the scientists are Pérez Ruzafa and Alejandro Pérez Pastor, Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the UPCT. On the technical side, in addition to Emilio María Dolores, the head of the Natura 2000 Network Conservation Service and Manuel Erena, from the Murcian Institute of Agricultural Research and Development, will also attend the meetings.
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