On Friday, August 26, the environmental documentary The new fishing of the Cabos Collective, during the eighth Guayaquil International Film Festival, in the Riocentro Ceibos Supercines.
The production tells the experience of the First fishing championship for waste and loose fishing lines in Ecuadoran activity that encouraged artisanal fishermen from five cooperatives in the canton General Villamil (Beaches) so that they would go out to a different task, where they would use their nets only to fish for garbage and discarded ropes.
The production of the documentary was developed by Sergio Moraga, Ignacio Garay, Diana Izquierdo, Carlos Guevara, Biny Chimbay, Carla Alegría and Diana Sandoval Mite, among other members of Colectivo Cabos, in co-production with Universidad Casa Grande and Mingas por el Mar.
“La Nueva Pesca was a perfect experience to make the problem visible, but above all to reveal a solution,” says Sergio Moraga, co-founder of Colectivo Cabos. “100% of the recovered ends will be transformed into new products such as: tables, planters, plastic bricks and bracelets.”, mentions Diana Izquierdo, a student at Casa Grande University and National Coordinator of Colectivo Cabos.
At the premiere were national and municipal authorities, environmental and academic organizations and the protagonists of the documentary. “We are grateful because we were unaware of the experience we lived, in three hours we collected that amount of garbage, it was a success to keep our oceans and our beaches clean,” he said. Roberto Cruz, artisanal fisherman and one of the leaders of the Punta Chopoya Cooperative.
“Now the discarded nets and ropes have a very significant value for us, because what we have taken from the sea can be recycled, given another use, when certainly for us that was of no use,” added Marcos Vera, artisanal fisherman of Cooperativa Las Rafts.
The documentary will also premiere in the Galapagos Islands on Sunday, August 29, in Santa Cruz, and on September 2 in San Cristóbal. With this, Colectivo Cabos seeks to expand its operations on all the coasts of continental and insular Ecuador.
The competition was organized by the Cabos Collective Professional Application Project, of the Casa Grande University, and had the support of the Mingas por el Mar NGO, the Gira comprehensive waste management company, the Favorita Foundation, Disensa, the Municipality of Playas Villamil, Emaplayas, the Playas Villamil National Recreation Area, the Hostería el Jardín, Ocean Club, La Canguilera Studios and the communications agency Gran Idea. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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