El Hierro lets fishers back onto its limpet coast for six weeks, and plans to count what’s left
Two requests, a week apart, started it. On 6 October, El Hierro’s fishers’ guild, the Cofradía de Pescadores Nuestra Señora de los Reyes, asked the regional government to review the rules on shore gathering of shellfish. On 13 October it narrowed the ask: open the north-west zone, temporarily. On 15 October the regional fisheries directorate […]
In La Lajita, dirty water is cleaned with plants, and a European project came to look
A wildlife park is not where you expect to hear about wastewater, yet on Thursday 22 October in La Lajita, in the municipality of Pájara, that was the subject. Oasis Wildlife Fuerteventura hosted experts from universities, research centres and companies linked to the European Natalie project, who came to see how its natural water treatment […]
Data processed at home: two edge nodes reach the Canaries, and distance stops working against the islands
“For an archipelago, latency is measured in kilometres.” The line belongs to Jorge Alonso, consulting director at Velorcios, and it is the clearest of those spoken on Thursday 22 October in El Sebadal, at the Canarias7 offices, during the forum “Nodos Edge: dato soberano, inteligencia en tiempo real”. The newspaper organised it and Telefónica sponsored […]
Who runs the Canary Islands’ airports? Talks with Madrid are set for 29 October
In January, according to RTVC, the control tower at El Hierro airport cut its service hours by twenty minutes because it was short of staff. Aena opened disciplinary proceedings against Saerco, the company that runs the tower. The Canarian government pointed to cases like this when it asked for a say in the archipelago’s airports. […]