junta<\/em> can be extracted. Through this, we avoid saturating the market and are able to conserve resources, select for quality and control prices.<\/p>\nTalking about shellfish gathering in Galicia is Natalia Lai\u00f1o, General Secretary of the Galician Association of Women and Men Shellfishers (AGAMAR). Shellfish gathering is a traditional activity in Galicia. Says Natalia: \u0093What we did in recent years was to get social recognition for them as workers.<\/p>\n
Shellfish gathering used to be a supplementary activity involving the family unit. When women and their children had some spare time, they would go to the sea to gather small amounts of shellfish for sale in the small regular markets or to a small trader in the area at that time.<\/p>\n
Natalia represented Galicia’s shellfish workers in the recently-concluded Global Conference on Small-scale Fisheries in Bangkok (4SSF). According to her, there is a great deal of difference in the way that rights are dealt within Galicia and what was discussed at the Conference. \u0093In Galicia, there is a need for basic rights including the right to livelihood, right to obtain work and health insurance and the right to information for consumers. However, some issues, for example, the fight against pollution, are common.<\/p>\n
Galician beaches are threatened by pollution from housing. Says Natalia: \u0093At one time the Galician junta<\/em> paid women workers to clean up the beaches, during which time they did not extract shellfish. But we want to eliminate pollution, because the mainstay for women shellfishers is not subsidies for cleaning up the beaches, but the produce of the sea.<\/p>\nWhat other issues affect shellfish gatherers? Says Natalia: \u0093We are also interested to have a debate on trade issues, about how extraction can be regulated and managed in ways that allow us to guarantee conservation of resources in the water, and also allows for the possibility of regulating the market. And we are committed to informing people that in Galicia the products extracted are artisanal and healthy. Our message is that there are different struggles, and we can say that through struggle, we achieve our objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":421,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"region":[],"source":[],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"yemaya_category":[5251],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/yemaya"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65117,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya\/45245\/revisions\/65117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=45245"},{"taxonomy":"yemaya_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yemaya_category?post=45245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}