Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

marisqueo furtivo

English translation:

poaching shellfish

Added to glossary by Wendy Gosselin
Aug 15, 2021 18:37
2 yrs ago
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Spanish term

marisqueo furtivo

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From a director's statement:

Vivo en A Coruña, a pocos kilómetros de la Costa da Morte, una zona que frecuento
y donde viví durante un tiempo, años atrás. En alguno de estos pueblos, igual que en muchos otros de Galicia, la heroína arrasó a toda una generación durante los años 80 y 90, y aún hoy es habitual el marisqueo furtivo entre delincuentes y marginados.


Is this a slang term related to drugs??

Thanks

Proposed translations

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poaching shellfish

It looks like drug trafficing is often linked to shellfish poaching in Galicia.

This article on an adaptation of 'Fariña' outlines the links between poachers and drug trafficking.
"Es la historia de un grupo de personas y el retrato de los años ochenta y noventa en Galicia. El equipo era en un 97% gallego, los personajes hablan con acento. Hemos querido retratar algo que conocíamos bien. Recuerdo ir de niño a comprar tabaco de batea al bar de abajo. Había connivencia con el marisqueo furtivo y el contrabando de tabaco, nos parecía bien. Claro que nadie sabía el dinero que había detrás, tanto que tenían que blanquear fuera. Queríamos contar el salto de los mariscadores furtivos al tráfico de drogas, que se produjo en 1984, cuando se equipara el delito de contrabando al de tráfico de drogas."
https://www.abc.es/play/series/noticias/abci-farina-novela-s...

This piece is about Galicia too
"The organized groups gather the more profitable clams, scallops and razor clams and are shifting tons not kilos. “These groups are organized, they earn a lot of money and they don’t hide what they do,” says one fisherman. “They drive big cars and powerful motorbikes and buy apartments – as if they were narcos. In fact, some are. They run the seafood alongside the tobacco and drugs. Look at the Os Fanchos clan. They dabble in everything, though there’s no need. The most powerful groups of poachers make more money than the smugglers.”"
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/04/02/inenglish/15226...
Peer comment(s):

agree Tomasso : De acuerdo, Costa Rica ishark poaching, that summer many attacks Florida, Costa Rica none, saw one or two small ones https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/A-daring-dive-into-the...
21 mins
Thanks Tomasso
agree Sergio Gaymer
35 mins
Thanks Sergio
agree AllegroTrans : shellfish poaching
2 hrs
Thanks AllegroTrans - yes that way round sounds less like you're cooking them!
agree Katarina Peters
4 hrs
Thanks Katarina
agree neilmac : Shellfish poaching
11 hrs
Thanks neilmac - yes it does sound better that way round.
agree Michelle Handley
19 hrs
Thanks Michelle
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38 mins

secret shellfish harvesting

Maybe to support their drug habit?

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-08-15 19:49:30 GMT)
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Or "clandestine shellfish harvesting".
Peer comment(s):

agree AllegroTrans : clandestine shellfish harvesting
2 hrs
Yes, I agree that "clandestine" would be better. Thanks.
agree Muriel Vasconcellos
3 hrs
Thanks, Muriel!
agree Katarina Peters
4 hrs
Thank you, Katarina.
agree neilmac : I like clandestine too...
11 hrs
Thank you, neilmac.
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