The vice-president and councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, assures that the aim is to raise awareness of the island’s maritime cultural heritage among young people and people at risk of social exclusion.

The Consell de Mallorca and the Sant Pere de Palma fishermen’s confraternity signed a collaboration agreement on Wednesday to promote, preserve and recover the island’s maritime and fishing heritage. The aim, explained the vice-president and councillor of Culture and Heritage, Antònia Roca, is “to publicise the joint actions that will be organised to promote initiatives and programmes for the conservation and improvement of the island’s maritime and port heritage and all the history that surrounds it.

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The Consell de Mallorca and the Sant Pere de Palma fishermen’s guild sign a collaboration agreement to promote, preserve and recover the island’s maritime and fishing heritage

The agreement lasts four years, extendable for a further four years. During this period, more joint actions will be planned to raise awareness of the island’s maritime cultural heritage among young people and people at risk of social exclusion.

Last school year, the Consorci del Museu Marítim and the fishermen’s guild of Sant Pere de Palma set up an activity called ‘La llotja de peix, un cop al mes! This consisted of school groups visiting Palma’s fishing dock and fish market every Wednesday to learn about different marine species. Due to the good reception of this initiative, which received a large number of requests, both parties agreed to collaborate in the future by developing activities of this type to transmit and recover Mallorca’s maritime cultural heritage.

The programme of activities will be carried out during the school year, to avoid the hottest months. It will be aimed at two groups: on the one hand, primary and secondary school groups from all over the island of Mallorca, and on the other hand, people at risk of social exclusion or with disabilities from the Apropa Cultura association. It will also include a wide variety of actions, from creating educational material on local and seasonal fishing, to ‘la setmana blava’ dedicated to maritime content and aimed at schools.