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It will be developed between 1 of September and 10 next October, in the fishing neighborhood of San Cristóbal and in Primary and Secondary Education centers of the Gran Canaria capital, with the participation of a thousand schoolchildren.
The City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria through the City Council of Ciudad de Mar, the Gran Canaria Coastal Action Group (GAC-GC), collaborating entity of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, will promote awareness about artisanal fishing and the sustainable use of the city's coastline through the 'San Cristóbal Sostenible' project: SALEMA’.
‘SALEMA – San Cristóbal Sostenible' is financed in a 85% by the European Fisheries Fund, Axis 4 Area 5, through the Gran Canaria Coastal Action Group, and is integrated into the Blue Growth strategy of the capital City Council with the aim of highlighting sea culture, the conservation of its resources and the entrepreneurship and employment associated with the work of fishing in the sea.
The councilor of Ciudad de Mar of the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Mimi Gonzalez; the Minister of Fisheries of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Francisco Santana; the president of the San Cristóbal Fishermen's Cooperative, Yeaho Saavedra, and the manager of the Gran Canaria Coastal Action Group, Patricia Navajas, have presented this initiative whose objective is to value the city's fishing resources and link them with reference centers such as the San Cristóbal Fishermen's Cooperative and the Canary Institute of Marine Sciences.
The actions, that will develop between 1 of September and 10 next October, will be presented to students in the third year of Primary Education and to adolescents in the third year of Secondary Education., that the sea is a very valuable resource that must be conserved and on which they could focus their professional future: from training and entrepreneurship.
SALEMA plans to develop talks and pedagogical activities in schools and institutes, on the sustainable use of the sea, artisanal fishing, seafaring traditions and the research carried out in Gran Canaria in centers such as the Spanish Algae Bank, the Oceanic Platform and the Canarian Institute of Marine Sciences.
Students will be able to participate in educational outings with fishermen from the Brotherhood of San Cristóbal and experts in marine sciences who will highlight the history of the fishing neighborhood, their traditions, Canarian latin sailing and other maritime activities, artisanal fishing and the role it has in the socioeconomic and cultural development of the neighborhood and the city.
Another of the actions that will be developed is the installation of interpretive posters and signage in the seaside neighborhood that will remain permanently to enhance knowledge of San Cristóbal among the citizens of the capital and tourists and visitors..
The SALEMA activities program will conclude with a great seafaring and fishing festival, the 10 October, in San Cristobal, where young students and families can share a day next to the Castillo de San Cristóbal and the callaos on the beach, taste the gastronomy of the area, buy fresh fish and watch the fishermen performing their traditional fishing gear.
Gran Canaria Coastal Action Group
LPGC joined the Gran Canaria Coastal Action Group in May 2012. It is a non-profit association promoted by the European Fisheries Fund. (FEP), the financial instrument that forms part of the Common Fisheries Policy.
The GAC brings together the fishing areas of San Cristóbal in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Hoya de la Plata, Alcaravaneras, Las Canteras and Costa Ayala. The San Cristóbal Fishermen's Cooperative is already part of this initiative along with the Agaete brotherhoods, Romeral Castle, Arguineguín, Mogán and Melenara.
The Cabildo of Gran Canaria coordinates the project through the Insular Vice-Ministry of Fisheries. The rest of the partners represent the different actors in the island's fishing sector.: councils, research centers, citizen groups and coastal promotion institutions.
The objectives of the Coastal Action Group coincide with the strategy being carried out by the Ciudad de Mar Area of the City Council: dynamize, promote and revalue the coastline and the opportunities that the sea offers to the city.