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So the PSOE has asked the Cabildo de Gran Canaria to promote and encourage the management of these spaces.
Carolina Darias, Socialist spokesman in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and Juan Lozano, secretary of the Association of Canary Salineros, and owner of the Salinas Playa de Vargas (Gran Canaria), They have released, from the Salinas de Arinaga, a motion of the PSOE in the insular institution for the recovery and promotion of the Salinas de Gran Canaria.
Socialists defend this motion at the next plenary, to be held the day 23 this month. The visit was also attended by other members of the PSOE in the Cabildo as Augusto Hidalgo, Isabel Guerra, Nayra German and José Antonio Godoy, besides socialist representatives of other municipalities in the Southeast, Juan Diaz for Ingenio, Nina Rodríguez, Councillor in Agüimes, And Julio Ojeda member of the PSOE in St. Lucia.
Of the nearly sixty saline located in the Archipelago, only nine are active, one in Fuerteventura, one in La Palma, Lanzarote two and five in Gran Canaria: the Bufadero (Arucas); the Arinaga (Agüimes); those of Bocacangrejo (Agüimes); the La Florida (Agüimes) and of Tenefé (St. lucia).
Requests the PSOE in the Cabildo of Gran Canaria pass consider the self-initiation of proceedings for the declaration of of Cultural Interest (Sold), with the category of Ethnological Site, Bufadero Salinas (Arucas) and of Bocacangrejo and Florida (Agüimes).
Second, Socialists propose to the City Council to consider the adoption by the institution of measures to proceed with the rehabilitation and maintenance of damaged structures and their associated salineras productive elements.
Also, processes considered necessary training and employment for the office of salinero be promoted: "The office of salinero know him very few. They can count on the fingers. We need people who know it today can teach so that this office is not lost. Here there may be jobs ", said the Socialist spokesman.
[quote]Of the nearly sixty saline located in the Archipelago, only nine are active, one in Fuerteventura, one in La Palma, Lanzarote two and five in Gran Canaria.[/quote]
On the other hand, the PSOE believes the Cabildo de Gran Canaria tourist must give impetus to our salt, reinforcing the salt industry with complementary tourism-based economic activities, the environment and culture
Finally, Socialists believe that it should proceed "urgently" to activate the salt market of Gran Canaria, through a marketing plan and marketing, with special emphasis on the change of image and appreciation of packaging and product diversification. "It is an important route for tourists visiting Gran Canaria come to know our salinas", Carolina Darias specified.
The secretary of the Association of Canary Salineros, Juan Lozano explained that, today, there is a job for each of the active salt in Gran Canaria, but "if we manage to rehabilitate it could take from one to three jobs per salina".
Lozano explained that the salt of Gran Canaria produce fine salt, medium grained and coarse, but, In addition, It has begun to produce the salt flower and flower flake, that they are of high quality.
More than the 85% Salt reaching Gran Canaria is not marina, but mineral -extraída of mines-. Lozano added that the quality of sea salt is superior.
The time to work in the salt ranges from March to September, He is according to Manuel Viera, salinero of about sixty, exploiting the salt mines of Arinaga since “can remember”. He has dedicated his entire life. He grew up and went to the office of their parents in these salt.