Albania's Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Administration Edmond Panariti called a meeting on Monday of restaurant owners and fishmongers to ask them to stop offering Dateri on the menu, to fish or trade it, according to ATA.

Dateri is a kind of mussel, one of the most popular and expensive sea food in Albania, which is now illegal to fish in most European countries, because the fishermen have to break up the seacoast to extract them from the rocks.

Panariti said the fishing of Dateri notably threatens the undersea environment, especially the underwater limestone, even the coral reefs.

Asking the people to observe the law, Panariti called on the Albanian consumers to become players in banning consumption of such a mollusc while thinking that just a plate of spaghetti prepared with this kind of mollusc is equivalent to damage of one square meter of underwater rock, or one square meter of coral reef along the coast.

The Albanian restaurant owners and traders supported this initiative based on the law. They gave assurances of being against fishing with dynamite and serving that fish in their restaurants.

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