Working sessions and visits to the fishermen’s associations in Corralejo and Gran Tarajal will take place on 27 and 28 October
The Cabildo de Fuerteventura will hold a meeting on 27 and 28 October as part of the European JAREAS project on the small-scale fishing sector. The project brings together 12 organisations from ten territories: the Canary Islands, Madeira, the Azores, Cape Verde, Senegal, the Gambia, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Ghana and São Tomé and Príncipe. This alliance will allow partners to share experiences, knowledge and good practice to tackle common challenges facing the sector and to promote new economic opportunities linked to the blue economy.
JAREAS, titled “From seafaring knowledge to blue innovation: competitiveness, resilience and sustainability for the small-scale fishing sector in the MAC area”, is being carried out by the Cabildo de Fuerteventura under the Interreg VI-D Madeira-Azores-Canarias (MAC) 2021-2027 Territorial Cooperation Programme, co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The project will enable the sharing of experiences and progress in areas such as innovation, training, economic diversification and the enhancement of fishery products. The visits to the fishermen’s associations in Corralejo and Gran Tarajal will give participating organisations the chance to see the reality of majorera small-scale fishing first-hand and learn about the needs and proposals of the sector.
The meeting will begin on Tuesday 27 October at the Centro Insular de Juventud de Fuerteventura (Fuerteventura Island Youth Centre) in Puerto del Rosario, with an official welcome led by the president of the Cabildo, Lola García. The session will present the project’s objectives and main lines of action, as well as the organisations that make up this cooperation alliance.
The first day will include the founding meeting of the Project’s Coordination and Governance Body, at which the mechanisms for coordinating, implementing and monitoring the planned actions will be established.
A transnational workshop titled “Building JAREAS” will also be held, in which the participating organisations will work together to define the project’s identity and identify the key stakeholders for its development.
On Wednesday 28 October, activities will move to the fishermen’s associations in Corralejo and Gran Tarajal, where representatives from the partner organisations will be able to see first-hand the reality of majorera small-scale fishing, including its infrastructure, organisation and main challenges.
These visits will provide an opportunity to exchange experiences with the local fishing sector and to identify needs and opportunities that could help shape the project’s future actions.
The project also includes the participation of the public company Gestión y Planeamiento Territorial y Medioambiental (Gesplan), alongside the other organisations that make up the international partnership.
With this meeting, Fuerteventura will become the starting point for joint work between the participating territories, with the aim of moving towards a more competitive, resilient and sustainable model of small-scale fishing — one that preserves traditional knowledge and contributes to the economic development of coastal communities.
