CETMAR participates in a mission to Costa Rica in the framework of a programme to improve and expand the capacities of the fishing sector to use environmentally friendly fishing gear
An expert from the Centro Tecnológico del Mar-Fundación CETMAR is currently participating in a mission to Costa Rica as part of the ‘Adelante2’ programme, which aims to improve and expand the capacities of the Costa Rican fishing sector to use environmentally friendly fishing gear.
Financed by the European Union-Costa Rica, Latin America and the Caribbean Triangular Cooperation Fund, this programme is led by the National Learning Institute (INA) of Costa Rica, and with the participation of the Institute of the Sea of Peru (IMARPE). Now, it enters the final phase with training for the fishing communities of Palito and Montero de Illa Chira and Manzanillo de Limón, in the Caribbean.
Guadalupe Martín Pardo, the Head of the International Cooperation area of CETMAR, participates in the action, aiming at training participants in key issues such as selective fishing gear, traceability of fishery products, circular economy, responsible fishing and ghost fishing.
A four-day workshop will be conducted by experts from the National Learning Institute of Costa Rica. Some months ago they participated in training internships in Spain, assisted by CETMAR, and in Peru, with the help of IMARPE. Both internships were linked to the topics described.
The training of the thirty participants is being supervised by an expert from CETMAR in areas related to the traceability of fishery products, responsible fishing or circular economy, and by an expert from IMARPE.
The mission, that will run until 1st March, includes a meeting with the executive president of INA, the Minister of the Sea and officials from the European Union-Costa Rica-Latin America and the Caribbean Triangular Cooperation Fund. In the meeting, representatives of every institution involved (CETMAR, INA and IMARPE) will present the results of the project.
