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Only with fishermen trained to be marine sustainability entrepreneurs, who are aware of the importance of their role in the management of common resources, and knowledgeable about the natural and local values that sustain their activity, will we be able to reduce the environmental impacts of fishing at, while at the same time ensuring decent income and preserving the social identity matrix of coastal communities.
This proposal intends to contribute to making fishermen informed actors in the defense of the sea, the common good that sustains us all and with which they have a daily and deep connection with, through the development of training actions in blue literacy.
The training proposed by the ANP - "Pescadores Pelo Futuro" - contains 5 modules with a total duration of 20 hours, adapted to the reality of the area of Lower Tagus Estuary, and which focus on themes such as the functioning of marine ecosystems, the need to protect certain species and ecosystems, notions of good fishing practices, and financial management and entrepreneurship for fishermen, as well as new technologies, more power in taking and better organization at the level of associations and intervention in the market.
It is intended to identify and map the stakeholders involved in the sector, paying special attention to shipowners and vessel masters, carrying out a diagnostic analysis through surveys, interviews and meetings, which aim to understand the current state of the sector and expectations and needs of themselves.
The project will also gather fishermen''s local ecological knowledge about species and habitat dynamics, as well as exotic or invasive species; and about the good practices/examples of entrepreneurship that are already part of its activity, in order to develop innovative and sustainable ideas that can be put into practice by the fishermen themselves. In the end, it is expected to strengthen the skills of 15-20 fishermen and shipowners in the Tagus estuary through this project.