“Fish are smart”

On a live streaming on YouTube, President Bolsonaro once again called the oil spill a “criminal act” and that the government has known and worked on it for the past two months.

Together with the National Secretary of Fishery on the video, they assured that fishing is not  forbidden in the affected  areas. “There is no  notification about  contaminations. The few we received were  about people covered in some oil  that used remover to  clean up,” the Fishery Secretary said, adding: “The fish is a smart animal. When he sees an oil patch there,  Captain (referring to president Bolsonaro), he  escapes, he is scared. So obviously you can eat your little  fish with  no worries; lobster, shrimp, all perfectly sane”, in another epic moment for the Brazilian internet. 

President Bolsonaro agreed with the Secretary of Fishery, complementing: “Obviously, sometimes, a turtle gets caught there in the oil patch – not to say that nothing happens right? One fish, one dolphin, it might happen, but it’s fine”. 

President Bolsonaro also affirmed that the investigations continue and that “it  is more than proven that the oil is from Venezuela. Maybe the  ‘left’ will  attack me because I said that”. He promised that, despite his busy agenda, he would visit the affected areas and “take a dive somewhere”. 

Still streaming, the president jumped on, to once again,  talk about how he plans to revoke the conservation status for the Angra dos Reis Bay, where he fantasizes of the “Brazilian Cancun” to attract foreign investors.