{"id":1172,"date":"2026-09-01T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makefishingfair.org\/?post_type=update&p=1172"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:56:41","slug":"finally-we-know-we-are-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/makefishingfair.org\/hr\/update\/finally-we-know-we-are-not-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Kona\u010dno znamo da nismo sami."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Renato Galeotti, Small-Scale Fisher, Vada, Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n

My name is Renato Galeotti and I have been a professional fisherman in Vada, Italy, since 2013. I don’t come from a family of fishermen and I don’t have a personal history tied to the sea. <\/p>\n

Until 15 years ago, my life was divided between my job as a sales manager for a paper company and time dedicated to social and environmental initiatives – which have always been a major focus of my life. I am part of the generation that, starting in the early 1990s, believed that the world could be changed from the bottom-up through a series of small, everyday gestures.<\/p>\n

In the early 2000s, I realised, with regret, that the world wasn’t going the way we’d hoped, and so I felt something had to change, both in my approach to environmentalism and, consequently, in my life. Thus was born the idea of \u200b\u200bcaring for a common good\u2014the sea\u2014and of working with it closely, every day, joining the group of people who, more than any other, are confronted daily with the management of this common good: fishermen.<\/p>\n

Moja je supruga podijelila ovo putovanje sa mnom i zajedno smo odlu\u010dili preseliti se u Vadu u Italiji, gdje je mogla nastaviti svoj rad kao u\u010diteljica u osnovnoj \u0161koli.<\/p>\n

Integrating into the world of Vada’s fishermen wasn’t difficult, especially because many of the older fishermen “adopted” me and recognised my attitude toward the sea embed the same respect they had learned from their parents and grandparents, who were fishermen. Indeed: respect for the environment isn’t an invention of third-millennium environmentalists, but was the norm when fishermen inherited the sea from their ancestors and passed it on to their children, confident that they would carry on their work. <\/p>\n

Ne\u0161to se slomilo u odnosu izme\u0111u ribara i mora, a to se dogodilo kada se riba prestala smatrati izvorom hrane, prvenstveno za obalnu zajednicu, i postala trgova\u010dki proizvod kao i mnogi drugi. Ribolovni napor naglo se pove\u0107ao, a dosada\u0161nja ravnote\u017ea je naru\u0161ena. Iz tog sam razloga od samog po\u010detka odlu\u010dio svoj ulov rezervirati za odabranu skupinu \u201cljubitelja ribe\u201d koji bi sa mnom provodili ribolovni projekt sposoban po\u0161tovati ritmove i regenerativnu sposobnost mora. Drugim rije\u010dima: nemam kupce nego ljude koji kupnjom ribe dijele zajedni\u010dki projekt.<\/p>\n

My years of social and environmental activism have allowed me to meet countless people driven by my own search for ways to impact reality, including through purchasing behaviour, and these people quickly became the “reference community” for my catch. They are people who gather in groups and live in cities or towns not far from Vada. Three afternoons a week, I bring the morning’s catch, usually on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. There’s no choice: I divide the day’s catch among those who have pre-ordered, naturally taking everyone’s preferences into account. But the choice ends there; you can’t just specify one or two types of fish and receive only those.<\/p>\n

This approach worked; so, within a short time, I involved other fishermen from Vada in this project and began delivering their catch as well. Naturally, the project has very specific rules: we fish only with gillnets; we don’t use nets with small meshes, even though the law allows it; and apply a series of other measures to reduce the impact on the sea. It’s worth noting that, in this way, I’ve never thrown away a single fish.<\/p>\n

Prodajna cijena moje ribe ni\u017ea je od one koja se obi\u010dno nalazi na tr\u017ei\u0161tu svje\u017ee ribe i to je mala nagrada koju oni koji sudjeluju u mom projektu dobivaju u zamjenu za odricanje od svog izbora.<\/p>\n

Ovakav na\u010din \u201c\u017eivota na moru\u201d svakako je pridonio ja\u010danju veza me\u0111u nama ribarima. Godine 2021. odlu\u010dili smo osnovati udrugu koja okuplja sve ribare Vade i \u010dija je misija, izme\u0111u ostalog, podizanje svijesti o na\u0161em moru, ribolovnim tehnikama koje se prenose stolje\u0107ima, te poticanje po\u0161tovanja prema okoli\u0161u. Svake godine deseci, mo\u017eda i stotine djece osnovne \u0161kole dolaze nas posjetiti i upoznati se s na\u0161im radom.<\/p>\n

Prije oko godinu dana osnovali smo mre\u017eu udruga pod nazivom \u201cOdbor za za\u0161titu Vada bankova\u201d. Obalni pojas kod Vade ima jedinstvene karakteristike: to je more bogato biolo\u0161kom raznoliko\u0161\u0107u o kojem se treba brinuti i koje se mora po\u0161tovati. Stvaranje ovog odbora svakako je va\u017ean korak, ali ga je sada potrebno provesti u djelo.<\/p>\n

\u017divimo u te\u0161kom povijesnom trenutku u kojem se mnogi dionici s razli\u010ditim interesima protive ekolo\u0161kim borbama, zbog \u010dega se, vi\u0161e nego ikada prije, moramo okupiti i udru\u017eiti svoje snage bez da nas na\u0161e razlike dijele.<\/p>\n

The role of associations that combine the environment and daily work is very important and, in particular, I believe that the Make Fishing Fair campaign is a point of reference for all of us: finally we know we are not alone.<\/p>\n

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