The ‘Pescándote’ marketing campaign, promoted by the Cantabrian Association of Fishery Producer Organizations (OPPs), seeks to worth this commerce and appeal to new professionalsXebe Amunarriz and 7 different fishermen put a face and voice to this marketing campaign”Technology has eased the harshness of a job that permits you to keep up a correspondence with nature every day”
Xebe Amunarriz has spent greater than half of his life in the identical job. The Cantabrian sea is her workplace and the ship of which she is the skipper is her workplace. Xebe is an arrantzale (fisherman) in Hondarribia. A career that he inherited from his father and that he has been working towards “with nice satisfaction” for 32 years and that he nonetheless likes like the primary day.
For Xebe, being a fisherman is synonymous with freedom. He acknowledges that it’s a powerful career, though “presently new applied sciences make every thing a lot simpler.” In addition, fishing permits you to keep up a correspondence with nature every day. “There isn’t any monotony, every single day is completely different and at all times in a pure surroundings”, he highlights.
‘fishing you’
The testimony of this arrantzale is a component, along with that of different skilled colleagues, of the ‘Pescándote’ marketing campaign promoted by the Association of Organizations of Fisheries Producers (OPPs) of the Cantabrian Sea, made up of Opacan (Cantabria), Acerga (Galicia), Opegui (Guipúzcoa) and Opescaya (Vizcaya).
The goal is to worth this commerce and appeal to new professionals. Fishing, “regardless of its many sights, suffers from a scarcity of pros, which generally even jeopardizes the potential of going out to sea by not with the ability to full crews,” they clarify.
That is why testimonies similar to that of Xebe Amunarriz, Pedro José Vallesolana, José Angel Valle, Carmen Chamorro, Ángel López Soto, José Francisco Fernández, Carlos Eizaguirre and Iker Jaio are so essential. They are the face and voice of a necessary and infrequently forgotten career. The sea is the livelihood of all of them they usually wish to make it recognized by means of their life tales.